I love my lathe

[monte55]

Every time I have a need like this and can go to my lathe I'm Happy.
I have a PC 2.5 hp router on my CNC table. It has collets for 1/2" and 1/4
cutter shanks. A while back I needed to hold 1/8" bits so I made a small collet to fit inside the 1/4 " collet. I know you can buy them but it cost nothing to make and I needed it now. Ok....I came across a couple dozen
solid carbide 3 flute end mills for a few dollars. I went to use one yesterday
grabbing my 1/8" collet and the bit just fell through. Its shank is .1165".
So I made a collet for that size. I had a numbered bit thats .116" out of my set of 115. I don't see how I ever made it before I owned a lathe. Here are some pics. The larger bit is .072" at the cutter end and the other is .031".
Nick

[ger21]

Probably a 3mm shank.

[TOTALLYRC]

Hi Nick,
Doesn't it make you feel good that you don't have to go buy something all the time, you can just make it yourself.



Mike.

[monte55]

It sure does. I save gas, money , and time. Also, some things you can't buy.

[CarveOne]

I love my lathe too, but my mills get jealous if I spend too much time with it. Just can't keep them all happy at once.

CarveOne

[TOTALLYRC]

Originally Posted by monte55 It sure does. I save gas, money , and time. Also, some things you can't buy.

Case in point. I am using my lathe to modify the shafts of some cheap treadmill motors to add encoders to use them as servo motors.


Having a mill and a lathe, Priceless.

Mike

@ Carveone. Both lathes get jealous when I work on the mill or the router, just like the women in my life, just can't make them happy.

[CarveOne]

Originally Posted by TOTALLYRC -snip- @ Carveone. Both lathes get jealous when I work on the mill or the router, just like the women in my life, just can't make them happy.

"Been dere, done dat." I had a chance to get a second lathe recently but just couldn't do that and get the 6x26 mill also. Too bad too, because it's a fully stripped, fully restored, fully repainted Logan 10x24 belt drive lathe. I repaired one minor gear for it (back feed pull handle gear had some broken teeth) and we installed a new, larger chuck on a new backplate. Two other stripped gears were replaced with salvaged gears that were purchased online. I did the machining to bolt the chuck to the backplate and my buddy turned the backplate on the Logan to fit the chuck onto the backplate accurately. Run-out is less than 0.0015" now. The original chuck had wobbly jaws. Someone had run the cross feed into the chuck at the high school machine shop it had been stored at for most of its life. Alas, I think it has been sold already.

CarveOne

[CarveOne]

The Logan lathe I mentioned in my previous post here is a Model 200 and it is not yet sold.

CarveOne

[TOTALLYRC]

Originally Posted by CarveOne The Logan lathe I mentioned in my previous post here is a Model 200 and it is not yet sold. CarveOne

Sounds like a great buy for the right person but the CK-12 Monarch that I just finished installing last week would kill me. Not to mention that I have no more room for equipment in the shop.

Mike

[CarveOne]

Originally Posted by TOTALLYRC Sounds like a great buy for the right person but the CK-12 Monarch that I just finished installing last week would kill me. Not to mention that I have no more room for equipment in the shop. Mike

Same here. He is asking $600 for it, and there's nothing to do but pick it up, install it, and start using it. He is not able to crate and ship it, so local pick up in eastern NC only. Send PM to "Leibowitz" on CNC Zone if interested.

The CK-12 should be a nice machine to work with for sure. Old iron rulz!

CarveOne