Newbie- Attach lathe chuck on X2 spindle

[leandrot]

Hello!

wich parts do I need to buy in order to use a mini lathe chuck on the X2 spindle?

I'm looking at the LMS website but there are so many parts that I'm no confident wich are the right ones
Also I sent an email to lms but got no reply

thanks

[sansbury]

Do you want to attach it temporarily or permanently?

The X2 spindle housing is the same casting and uses the same bearings as the 7x mini-lathes. You could press out the mill spindle and mount a mini-lathe spindle. The mini-lathe spindle has a 3MT taper so you might be able to still use that for milling with a drawbar? Just a thought.

For more temporary... you could also buy a blank R8 arbor and machine it so you could mount a face plate. Then you could bolt the chuck onto that, and it would be temporary.

[LeeWay]

Or use one of these.
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-3-JAW-SELF-CEN...6.c0.m14.l1318

[leandrot]

It is going to be a permanent modification. In fact I'm disassembling my homemade mill (wich have a X2 head) to build a micro lathe.
My cnc mill works OK for wood and aluminium, but I'm using it only 3 hours a week while I need a lot more of lathe work.
So I intend to build the lathe using the most of the mill parts I can.
So good the mill head uses the same bearings as the mini lathe
Thankyou very much guys. I will buy that kit from ebey and hopefully start building my new machine soon