On 11/16/2010 7:22 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: > I would take a big aluminum plate and mill it to fit on the lathe > vee-ways, so that if I clamp it to the lathe bed it will stay solidly > in one place.
Nothing wrong with this at all, and in fact I did so several years ago. But instead of a purpose built attachment, I took my Max NC and bolted it to an aluminum plate. At the time I had a 16x60 Victor engine lathe, the cross slide had dovetail cuts down either side. I made up mating clamps for the sides of the aluminum plate. This worked out really nice as I could dial in x or z offsets directly with the carriage, as well as get the whole thing out of the way very quickly. The whole thing would hang on the back chip shield when not in use. Only drawback was the 1800 max spindle rpm, but since the MaxNC was slower than a drunken snail, it didn't matter too much... <G> Well, the only other drawback was using the MaxNC software which did not support multiple tool offsets in a lathe format, and that was something of a limiting factor.... I later had a13" Clausing Colchester, and and made aluminum vee'd adapters to bolt it directly to the bed. Since I almost assuredly won't be able to take a CNC lathe with me to Australia, and maybe not even a CNC mill, I plan to make an XY/XZ attachment that I can bolt to either an engine lathe bed, or the table of my Bridgeport, for basic 2 axis CNC work. If the gmail account you're posting here with is good for return emails, I can send you a couple pictures of the setup. Or if attachments are OK and others here are interested, I could post them. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
