matthewlee
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Hi Kevin do you have an overarm for an FP3 and maybe an arbor or two? Also will be looking for an indexing head and a slotting head eventually.I have several overarm's available.
Kevin
IIRC, the vertical head is moved to a position the gears are no longer engaged.........For the sake of conversation and only for that, if I would intend to run an FP3 horizontally with long arbors for a very long time, I would, possibly, feel better using the FP2 overarm support instead of the FP3 head.
It would be quieter, less front heavy and wouldn't have all the gears and vertical spindle spinning in vain (though horizontal cutters are mostly run at low RPM so no big deal on the latter).
Then of course one would need two bushing brackets, one matched to the regular FP3 head for most of the work and the other to the FP2 overarm support for the case described above.
Of course, in real life, no-one would do this I bet. Myself, I gave the FP2 overarm support with the FP2 (even though it had the long reach head, so it wasn't, strictly, necessary), so I won't be doing that either.
Just for the sake of conversation, I repeat....
Best regards,
Thanos
Thanks Ross, for confirming......the last gen FP1 doesn't require the overarm either.Kevin is correct.
When using an FP3 or last generation FP2 the upper “y” slide (support for the vertical head) is moved forward to the point that the drive gearing is no longer in mesh, so the vertical head is not running.
You are correct in that there would be some additional weight at the forward end of the assembly due to the mass of the vertical head, but I submit that the section of the vertical head base is more rigid than a stand alone overarm.
Cheers Ross
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