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    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

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    Fixed the link!

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    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.

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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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    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 background
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    Wow, that's something else.

    Amazing job. Great video.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave J View Post
    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.

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    No, not imagining Dave. I reported that the link was wrong, you put the right one up, then Simon corrected his original (wrong) link, so I deleted all that toing and froing as it was now superfluous and detracted from the thread.

    However............

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    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.

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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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