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Re-Pimping the 7x12 minlathe.
RotarySMP:
I got a mini-lathe from Artec (a German brand), about 10-15 years ago. It is the generic lathe made by SIEG, but branded and sold by every man and his dog. it was the only machine tool I had as we had an inner city apartment, and the lathe in the corner of the balcony was the machine shop.
http://wrathall.com/Interests/machining/My_shed.htm
I did a lot of modding on it. Starting with the typical little stuff like swarf guard on the apron gears, and adding a carriage lock.
http://wrathall.com/Interests/machining/Carriage_lock.htm
Then on to some more extensive mods like the T-Slotted cross slide, which was very handy.
http://wrathall.com/Interests/machining/Carriage_lock.htm
It was quite quickly converted it to TurboCNC, which worked quite well. The canned cycles were really quite handy.
Since moving into a house with a basement machine shop, the 7x Minilathe has just lurked in the corner, except for being abused into turning wood on a couple of occasions.
I was never that happy with some of the harlf-arsed mods I did, and also got interested in doing a scraping project, so figured the little mini-lathe would be the perfect practice piece as it is nice and small and shouldnt take for ever.
Here is the first installment of the video log of re-modding it...
Mark
RotarySMP:
I have made a fair bit of progress on the Minilathe.
Episode 2 - Still scraping
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Episode 3 - Finishing the bed
Episode 4 -
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Mark
Joules:
Great series of videos, I particularly like the 3D printed lathe dog, look forward to seeing how that works out for you.
RotarySMP:
Thanks Joules. My first thoughts were machining a steel lathe dog on the MAHO, but the 3D printer provides a way faster solution, for a one off problem. On another forum someone was wondering whether that Lap would work 3D printed as well.
Mark
Joules:
Mmmm, many times I have used wooden internal laps, not sure I would trust the printed plastic direct, especially if it warmed up a bit. I have small bending rolls and would consider rolling a thin wall tube for cutting up, then epoxy the pieces to a 3D printed lap carrier. Get the best of both worlds, must give it a try. I recently started laser cutting fine emory paper and adding that to 3D printed profiles for polishing.
Regardless of all that, very much enjoying your journey with the Mini lathe.
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