Greetings all; Since my toy lathe broke itself, again, and its made out of rubber anyway, I was watching it fight with a dull chip that actually looked good under a strong glass a couple days ago, and the major two sources of flex that induce chip breaking chatter are the spindle itself, and under pressure from the dull chip, I could see the cross-slide visibly bowing in its length. This while taking .25mm off the diameter of that piece of cast per pass at about a 20mm per minute feed.
So its a piece of crap in the first place. Now, knowing that I'll cnc it, and it looks fairly easy, I am considering driving up to Pittsburgh and getting a new PM-127VF-LB lathe, ebay link: <http://www.ebay.com/itm/PM1127VF-LB-METAL-WORKING-LATHE-VARIABLE-SPEED-LARGE-BORE-QCTP-/231943772037?hash=item3600ed1785> At that spindle bore, I'd not have any trouble mounting a rifle barrel, which is a definite plus. The chuck mount is a minus though, almost exactly like this toy, 3 studs in the chuck thru a flange on the end of the spindle, so that will definitely need another deer hoist rigged. Both chucks are 6", but the motor is a bit puny, running on a 15 amp wall outlet. And a dividing head for my mill at the same time as both are in stock and I can put finger prints on them at the dealers location in Pittsburgh, ebay link: <http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-0-Precision-Dividing-Head-With-5-3-jaw-Chuck-Tailstock-part-BS-0-new/311287173608?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D36142%26meid%3D0fb601c6651b4939ab2189a87f8c75c7%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D181674670773> But its $399 there, and the best I can find on ebay wants $40 shipping on a $339.95 price. $20 diff. Shrug. I'll need to replace a missing pulley in my deer hoist hanging over the mill now so I can hang the head if I have to as it weighs 60 lbs and thats more than whats left of my back can do. This lathe is fairly new on the market I think, no ready made stand, and a stand for it would have to be made, weighs about 600 lbs. That I can handle with a neighbors engine crane I think. Put good castors on the stand and I should be able to access all around it. Comments please, either side of the argument. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
