Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe !!!!

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awemawson:
And then putting the hydraulic draw tube, my mock up, and the chuck together we get this:

awemawson:
So tomorrow I hope to assemble this lot back in the lathe spindle, which will allow me to make adjustments and trials to finalise the length of the 'proper' adapter.

But first I need to make some tubular spanners so the bits can be tweaked in place.

vtsteam:
me want to see tubular spanners.....

awemawson:
Nothing complicated Steve - just heavy wall tube with projecting lugs.

So I started today by milling pockets in the female threaded part to match the big tubular spanner that came with the lathe

awemawson:
This spanner fits 'up the spout' of the lathe and was intended to tighten the tube that couples the hollow hydraulic cylinder to the chucking device.

Next task was to fit the adapter on the spindle nose that converts the A6 nose to this particular chuck (A5) - easy task, but then I discovered that the bore through the adapter was a tad less than the spindle bore, no issue functionally except that the big tubular spanner won't go through it :bang:

But that's why we have lathes . . . . modify the spanner :ddb:

Rather a lot of over hang here - but it's very thick walled tubing - I had to reduce it by 1.5 mm diameter

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