Andy Pugh wrote: > On 16 November 2010 16:58, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > >> and I STILL have not gotten around to CNC-ing my lathe. > Also, threading suddenly becomes trivial. And you can do things like > to 15.75mm x 0.6mm thread that I used to hold parts of my drawbar > together, because CNC doesn't care what changewheels you have. > Metric threading and tapers are the main reason I would like to CNC it. It is a totally massive lathe, came with a DRO, and is amazingly rigid and powerful. On the same part I put the ball end on by latheing it in my CNC mill, I used this lathe to turn a 1" - 20 TPI thread in 3 passes at 900 RPM. But, it can only do Imperial threads.
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