Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe !!!!

[awemawson]

Thanks Tom. It arrived this afternoon and is on charge - not had time to play yet as I've to dig 30 metres of land drain this evening in the field

[awemawson]

Today's Task: get the tin work back on the 'X' axis turret slide.

So this:

[awemawson]

Needs covering up with this lot - anyone remember what goes where and in what order 

[awemawson]

Trial offering up sorted out the conundrum, so we start with the left cheek piece:

[awemawson]

Followed up by the smaller boxy shaped thingy:

[awemawson]

Followed by the bigger boxy shaped thing:

[awemawson]

And finally the outer left hand cheek which was the panel I had to make - will it fit ....

[awemawson]

Yes it did - so it should !

Rightly or wrongly I decided to lather the entire inside of the metalwork with undiluted soluble cutting oil. My argument being that the bare metal had already shown signs of corrosion, the soluble cutting oil has corrosion inhibitors in, and it seems to cling to my other machines pretty well as the water evaporates. Also I didn't want to introduce other oils as the whole machine will be awash with soluble oil when widget production starts.

[lordedmond]

 its getting closer to widget production 


Stuart

[Pete W.]

its getting closer to widget production 


Stuart

Won't we wejoice with 'whoopees' when window wonderfully weveals whizzy widgets wending wictoriously without westriction while weltering white water washes wotating whiskers within?

                           

[vtsteam]

westwiction, pwease!

Cawamba, what is the wanguage coming to watewy?

[lordedmond]

Pete
you have that rare and highly contagious condition  called Wublewoo Syndrome



Stuart

[awemawson]

  OK you lot at the back of the class room, stop mucking arround and concentrate 


We have SWARF

  This may not be the most impressive demonstration in the world, but it IS the first time this lathe has produced swarf in probably over 3 years 

I had to cheat as the tool setting issue is currently defeating me. I wrote a diddy program to start the main spindle at 1000 rpm then used MDI to do the turning - up until now I hadn't found a way to set the spindle running other than when running a program, but I found that you can actually pop out of the program leaving the spindle running and operate the machine either under MDI or jog mode.

Anyway a highly unimpressive picture of a 1" stainless steel bar reduced to 21.14 mm and the resulting swarf:

[awemawson]

I have made contact with a company in the midlands that run several Traub CNC lathes and have been offered the opportunity to spend the day with them picking their brains and copying any documentation that I don't already have. Even more surprising the SWMBO has agreed (even actually suggested !) making a mini holiday in her motor caravan and dropping me off for the day - I feel quite faint  Just need to arrange a farm sitter for a couple of days - any volunteers ?

[Pete W.]

Pete
you have that rare and highly contagious condition  called Wublewoo Syndrome



Stuart

Stuart,

Well, I AM Pete Wublewoo, so who'd be more likely to suffer it?             

(If it's that contagious, how can it be so rare?)                   

  OK you lot at the back of the class room, stop mucking around and concentrate 


We have SWARF

  This may not be the most impressive demonstration in the world, but it IS the first time this lathe has produced swarf in probably over 3 years 

   SNIP

Anyway a highly unimpressive picture of a 1" stainless steel bar reduced to 21.14 mm and the resulting swarf:

Awemawson,

Hooway, Hooway, wictory, wictory, we wesoundingly wejoice!

                 
 

[Anzaniste]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Following this thread in complete awe, not understanding a word but recognising the grit and determination to see it through, I am full of admiration for your efforts.

I'm looking forward to seeing the beast do more than one thing at once under the voodoo magic instructions that I am sure you will be able to incant.

[dsquire]

I have made contact with a company in the midlands that run several Traub CNC lathes and have been offered the opportunity to spend the day with them picking their brains and copying any documentation that I don't already have. Even more surprising the SWMBO has agreed (even actually suggested !) making a mini holiday in her motor caravan and dropping me off for the day - I feel quite faint  Just need to arrange a farm sitter for a couple of days - any volunteers ?

awemawson

Congratulations on having made the first swarf with the machine. Hopefully it will be all downhill from here. Getting the opportunity to spend the day with the machines, operator and documentation should help you imensley. 

I would offer to farm sit but they haven't finished building the bridge over the pond as yet. 

Cheers 

Don

[awemawson]

No Bridge Don - dig a tunnel    (watch out for the mid Atlantic Ridge )

Farm sitter sorted, date set for two weeks time, so hopefully onwards and upwards.

[vtsteam]

Excellent! Congratulations!!!!  

[awemawson]

  Inside The Belly of The Beast 

Been experimenting putting a 'GoPro' video Camera inside the machine enclosure - really just mucking  about trying to make sure it's in a relatively safe place and still get a reasonable shot:

(How do I embed a Youtube link? - cutting and pasting from the youtube embed link doesn't seem to work)

[philf]

  Inside The Belly of The Beast 

Been experimenting putting a 'GoPro' video Camera inside the machine enclosure - really just mucking  about trying to make sure it's in a relatively safe place and still get a reasonable shot:


www.youtube.com/embed/cW5xb9LVlE8

(How do I embed a Youtube link? - cutting and pasting from the youtube embed link doesn't seem to work)

Andrew,

Simples: Press the YouTube Button and paste the video url between the inner pair of square brackets. (Right click on video and click on "Copy Video URL".)

[ Invalid YouTube link ]

I'm amazed that you couldn't suss that one out considering all the far more complex problems you've shown you can solve. 

 

Phil.

[awemawson]

Well it's still not working for me

"Press the YouTube button" - which button where ?

"Inner pair of square brackets" - which square brackets where?

From the source video on my youtube page I can by right clicking :

'Copy Video URL' which gives me:

[ Invalid YouTube link ]

or

'Copy embed code' which gives me:

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


No Youtube buttons or square brackets in sight !!!!

[dsquire]

  Inside The Belly of The Beast 

(How do I embed a Youtube link? - cutting and pasting from the youtube embed link doesn't seem to work)

awemawson

This is how you initially had it

Code: [Select]

www.youtube.com/embed/cW5xb9LVlE8
This is what you need to make it work

Code: [Select]

[youtube]cW5xb9LVlE8[/youtube]

There are other methods but this one allways seems to work for me. it is those 11 characters between the square brackets that you have to find. Hope this helps.

Cheers 

Don

[awemawson]

OK I've found the 'Youtube' button hiding amongst the test attributes - thanks Don and Philf.

[philf]

OK I've found the 'Youtube' button hiding amongst the test attributes - thanks Don and Philf.

Andrew,

Sorry - I should have told you where the YouTube button was. I went out just after I posted so have only just seen your reply. I didn't know you could just paste the video code between the square brackets so I've learned something myself.

I'm just about to venture into the world of a CNC lathe. Mine shouldn't present much of a problem as there's no auto tool change, only a 1/2hp spindle motor and a 3-jaw manually operated chuck to worry about. (And it will fit in the boot of my car!)

Cheers.

Phil.