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edit: someone is coming to look at it later today, will delete when it’s actually out
:boost_request: Free Lathe looking for a good home!
Location: Hohenau an der March, lower Austria
Do your hackerspace (or you) want a lathe? I am moving soon, and I don’t think I will be able to take it with me, so I want to find my Paulimot PM3800 a new home.
It weighs around 300kg, + 50 for the base, 6 speed spindle gearbox, power feed in both axis, change gears for threading, all still there. Comes with a 3 jaw and a 4 jaw, which needs a mounting plate tho, set of indexable turning tools with inserts, live and dead center, 2 ER32 tail stock drill holders with a full collet set.
Bought it new around 2020, probably less than 200 hours on it, protected from grinding dust so should be in decent condition.
Also bar stock in steel, aluminium, brass and bronze.
Optionally if you want to tinker: A VFD, Masso CNC controller, and 2 300w servo motors.
There is an engine hoist for lifting it off the base, and into a car or trailer, you do need to get it up a steep ramp for about a meter, but there is a hardpoint at the top for setting up rope and pulley or similar. I guess a few very strong people could also just lift it up the few steps.
I would like to get it out of here quickly, ideally this weekend or early next week, if possible.
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#FreeCADFriday Made some progress on the CNC lathe #FreeCAD project this week. With all the headstock parts captured, I can now start reassembling it with new bearings.
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#FreeCADFriday Made some progress on the CNC lathe #FreeCAD project this week. With all the headstock parts captured, I can now start reassembling it with new bearings.
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After re-surfacing the key components of my mini lathe, I was finally able to start putting it back together to get a feel for its capabilities before attempting a conversion to #CNC.
However, before I can do that, there’s one thing. Now that everything is disassembled, it’s the perfect moment to capture it in #freecad.
Starting with the lathe bed:
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i don't know any woodworkers on here in England.
@Nickiquote knows the oxford area.
for some reason @DamonHD springs to mind.
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i don't know any woodworkers on here in England.
@Nickiquote knows the oxford area.
for some reason @DamonHD springs to mind.
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Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe
#HackerNews #Lathe #LLMs #Learning #NewDomains #TechInnovation #GitHub
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Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe
#HackerNews #Lathe #LLMs #Learning #NewDomains #TechInnovation #GitHub
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I've been toying with the idea of a #lathe to play around with. I've never touched one so lots of YouTubing in my future. I also saw that #MakerWorks has a class. Curious if anyone's taken that and had thoughts
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I’m calling it good enough. The v-slot is far from perfect, but I had trouble spotting it reliably. Not only that, scraping there was difficult enough that at this point I’m afraid of making it worse.
After all, given where we started, I’m happy with the results!
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Getting there! The v-slot is very difficult to both spot and scrape, but overall I am getting to somehow satisfactory fit. :)
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I made a simple micrometer mounting plate, and now I can finally measure what I’m doing. Even with this makeshift setup, it’s a huge confidence boost to know that I’m moving in the right direction. :)
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Attempting to scrape the saddle to fit bed ways for my CNC mini lathe. On YouTube it seemed so much easier :) I feel like it is super easy to mis-interpret the spotting marks - ink piling in the low spots and leaving false imprints.
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I would like to build a Faulex in a magnified scale to show my #lathe skills
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I would like to build a Faulex in a magnified scale to show my #lathe skills
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With the grinder completed, I could focus on the small carbide scraper I needed to fine-tune the recently machined saddle of the VEVOR lathe that I wanted to CNC.
A tool like that should be simply brazed, but I neither had the acetylene torch nor the silver solder.
Instead, I opted to hacksaw a slot in a steel bar that, with some persuasion, fit the carbide blade. A small 3D printed retaining ring designed in #freecad is enough to keep the blade firmly in place.
#machining #cnc #lathe #diy -
Final turning was done on the Emco #lathe itself in an attempt to maintain as much concentricity as possible.
Some polishing, a bit of cold blue and it’s done.
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Following up on the last week #freecadfriday, #machining the Emco Unimat #lathe grinding arbour in @hskrk
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Yesterday, we launched our new shop #website. I spent a little more time on it than I had originally planned to but it is done for now. I may add some more features in the future but it is online and working now.
There were no big issues with the launch so I could go back to work #intheshop. I decided to drive the spindle on my #CNC #machine with a toothed belt to make good use of the servomotor that will power the spindle.
Assembly will be press fit with about 0.035mm interference. #lathe
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Yesterday, we launched our new shop #website. I spent a little more time on it than I had originally planned to but it is done for now. I may add some more features in the future but it is online and working now.
There were no big issues with the launch so I could go back to work #intheshop. I decided to drive the spindle on my #CNC #machine with a toothed belt to make good use of the servomotor that will power the spindle.
Assembly will be press fit with about 0.035mm interference. #lathe
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P-SOL – Secrets / Fooling Me
#7"vinyl #Electronic #VinylRelease #disco #edits #funk #hiphop #house #lathe #lathecut #samplebased #samples #NewYork
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://psol.bandcamp.com/album/secrets-fooling-me -
P-SOL – Secrets / Fooling Me
#7"vinyl #Electronic #VinylRelease #disco #edits #funk #hiphop #house #lathe #lathecut #samplebased #samples #NewYork
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://psol.bandcamp.com/album/secrets-fooling-me -
#freecadfriday designing a prototype grinding wheel hub to fit-check to my Unimat #lathe
#machining real one next!
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Dovetails before and after:
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Before and after:
#maker #machining #cnc #lathe #mill -
Next, I used 3D printed fixture designed in #freecad to accurately flip the saddle for subsequent #machining of the saddle dovetails.
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Here's part 2 of a video series documenting the addition of a homebrew servo-driven motor system to the leadscrew of my lathe!
In this video I actually make a part on my lathe! (!!!)
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I can finally start doing the fun stuff with my #lathe. By which I mean "more lathe improvements".
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I am very slowly learning that I can get away with quite bad #lathe crimes and still get good results. Look at that mirror finish! Lovely stuff.
Please ignore the charred milling bit. That is less lovely.
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I got a cheap Aliexpress DRO and installed it onto my new lathe! It all went pretty well! I cadded up some brackets in #freecad
Drilling holes into the cast iron bits of my lathe was fairly terrifying, but being able to measure cuts down to 0.005mm without reaching for the calipers is extremely useful.
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I had a time making a part for my new lathe. It was educational.
