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24th Apr 2013, 09:10 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Home made Lathe
While looking at the "Cheap Steel" thread and YouTube Video by nearnexus, I found this video on a home made lathe and ELS. Best home made lathe I have ever seen!
I would like to know whether it has rigidity issues since it's made of mild cold rolled steel instead of CI. It seems quite capable of heavy cuts.
Homemade Metal Lathe. (w/ simplest electronic lead screw) - YouTube
Cheers,
Simon
Fixed the link!
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24th Apr 2013, 09:27 PM #2Dave J Guest
I doesn't look like the bed rails where machined , so over a short distance they would be fine but over the whole length I don't think it would be very true, but I could be wrong as he might have had them machined or ground.
The electronic lead screws have been around for a long while now.
Dave
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24th Apr 2013, 09:40 PM #3Cba
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> Best home made lathe I have ever seen!
where there is a will, there is a way.... incredible what a really determined person can do with very little expense....
> I would like to know whether it has rigidity issues since it's made of mild cold rolled steel instead of CI. It seems quite capable of heavy cuts.
I would not expect rigidity to be a problem. The difference is that cast iron dampens vibrations, whereas a fabricated steel lathe bed may "ring like a bell", In other words, it may amplify vibrations that are close to its resonance frequency, instead of dampening them. Of course there are tricks, like filling a hollow fabricated steel structure with concrete. Chris
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24th Apr 2013, 09:46 PM #4
It certainly looks the part. It even sings to you....
It sounds like its in a heavy industrial setting, thats a fair bit of banging going on in the background1915 17"x50" LeBlond heavy duty Lathe, 24" Queen city shaper, 1970's G Vernier FV.3.TO Universal Mill, 1958 Blohm HFS 6 surface grinder, 1942 Rivett 715 Lathe, 14"x40" Antrac Lathe, Startrite H225 Bandsaw, 1949 Hercus Camelback Drill press, 1947 Holbrook C10 Lathe.
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24th Apr 2013, 11:15 PM #5Most Valued Member
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Wow, that's something else.
Amazing job. Great video.
Rob
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24th Apr 2013, 11:41 PM #6Dave J Guest
I don't know whats going on, but I am sure Fred posted about it being the wrong link, then I posted under him and wrote amazing with the correct link, but now both posts are gone, mmm, maybe I am imagining things.
Dave
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24th Apr 2013, 11:49 PM #7
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25th Apr 2013, 12:02 AM #8Dave J Guest
Thanks Fred, it just my now first post sounds as if I am questioning the lathe, but my first post was stating it was amazing.
Dave
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26th Apr 2013, 08:16 PM #9Diamond Member
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WOW, what an achievment. I didn't get to see all the Video due to Youtube freezing up. I like the Idea of the Car Gearbox.
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