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Milling on a mini lathe
Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: nrml on November 27, 2014, 01:45:59 PM ---Hi Ian,
Oddly enough, I have been researching this too recently and here are my opinions for whatever they are worth. Forgive me if I am stating the obvious.
1. The cheapest option is using your existing top slide but if your mini lathe is anything like mine, the build quality of the top slide and the amount of backlash in the screw would make an already difficult operation (milling on a machine with lots of limitations) even more infuriating.
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It is a bit Quixotic to tolerate the top slide as a top slide but not as vertical slide.
So even more Quixotically, you should move the bought out vertical slide as as top slide.
Pardon, eh?
Gone onto the 500mg Naproxens- twice a day.
Norman
ian_in_the_midlands:
That is about the conclusion I have came to nrml.
The arc slide, with the additional table is too much.
The Warco option looks more versatile with the T-slots, but I am surprised that I can find no pictures so maybe there is a problem with fitting.
I saw them at the Warwick show a few weeks ago. I wish I had taken more notice.
nrml:
--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on November 27, 2014, 03:43:39 PM ---It is a bit Quixotic to tolerate the top slide as a top slide but not as vertical slide.
So even more Quixotically, you should move the bought out vertical slide as as top slide.
Pardon, eh?
Gone onto the 500mg Naproxens- twice a day.
Norman
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I don't use the top slide as a slide. I've tightened the gib screws to make it as immobile as possible for exactly this reason. It is simply a mount for the tool post. I intend to ditch it altogether in favour of a tool post to fit straight on to the cross slide when I get time to bodge it.
I am afraid I don't quite get what you mean by ''So even more Quixotically, you should move the bought out vertical slide as as top slide''.
nrml:
--- Quote from: ian_in_the_midlands on November 27, 2014, 05:06:07 PM ---That is about the conclusion I have came to nrml.
The arc slide, with the additional table is too much.
The Warco option looks more versatile with the T-slots, but I am surprised that I can find no pictures so maybe there is a problem with fitting.
I saw them at the Warwick show a few weeks ago. I wish I had taken more notice.
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Why don't you ask Warco what the distance between the centers of the two mounting bolt holes are? If that is right, it shouldn't anything major doing to make it fit.
Fergus OMore:
Ah yes, if I recall Cervantes wrote of the faithful Sancho Panza who was the servant of Don Quixote thus
'Patience fleas, the night is long' A fitting remark(?) for a would be machine tool reconditioner. :wack:
Regards
Norman
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