I have an ongoing production job I'd like to run on a tiny lathe like that. I could remove the tool post and tail stock and bolt on some gang tooling and leave it set up to run that job whenever needed. It only requires about five square feet of shop space, and I could run it while also running larger jobs on the larger lathe for increased productivity. It's truly sad to see the mental gymnastics when I want to buy a new toy, err... I mean tool.
I've been buying these nice $65 powder coated steel shop cabinets at Sam's Club and using them for inexpensive electrical panels. They're 28" H X 24" W X 12" D, which would be the perfect size to mount inside a simple 80/20 frame under that little lathe. Maybe put the LinuxCNC electrical panel on the back side and a matching cabinet on the front side to store tooling for that cute little lathe. Have a tilt-up keyboard tray on the front and mount the LCD monitor above the lathe on the back. That would be a sweet little package. I like how the red E-stop push button is labeled PANIC. I might need to keep that. :-) The build quality looks fairly good, but I wasn't able to find much info on that tiny lathe. Someone was asking $2269 for one recently! http://turninglathe.net/tag/mini-lathe-machine Better pictures and info here, but $2900 is WAY more than I'd consider paying for this tiny used lathe. http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTI-SM5110-Mini-Lathe-MachineWare-Technology-Inc-/260848970735 Dayton is a four hour round trip from here, but I was getting ready to make that trip to bring back a pickup truck load of supplies for my business anyway, so picking up the mini lathe is almost a free trip for me. I already made a trip to Dayton to buy an airplane and I hauled it back on a flatbed trailer, and I bought my 10X24 Clausing lathe in Dayton and brought it back in my pickup a year and a half ago. I've added this lathe to my eBay watch list... like I need another CNC project for my Summer Of Projects. :-o On 05/02/2013 09:04 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > This would be a cute little project to put a modern control on. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/321118780892 > > Looks ideal for a LCNC on BBB project. Could put the BBB inside that housing > somewhere, connect up all the original buttons and switches, then discreetly > install an Ethernet jack for remote operation. > > If that was out here instead of in Ohio, you all wouldn't be hearing about it > from me on this list... ;-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
