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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 11, 2012, 03:30:10 AM »

I'm way more excited about my mill than i am my lathe, the manual is real nice and i have all the nice bits an bobs to make it easy to use. I just find the mills more fun to program etc, lathes tend to turn parts out quickly but the parts are pretty simple, the mill will take a massive lump of material and turn it into some fantastic part.

Ether way ill get there, ill start a mill blog once i have it pretty much done anyway, its the same look and color as the lathe, i'm pretty happy with how its all going so far.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: April 10, 2012, 05:18:16 PM »

Its basically were i left off in the blog, I got the parts cut with it in the state it was so the pressure is off. I also ended up buying a Taiwanese tool room lathe as I always figured I would so that has again taken a lot of pressure off, then i built a new work shop, had to move, had to rebuild the mill and the list goes on.
I'm about 3/4 through the mill rebuild so imagine ill be getting to the lathe by about May/June.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 16, 2011, 04:54:50 PM »

Hey guys i need to buy 2x 7204 angular contact bearings from the US (they want $50 US each here wow!) my friend lives in Carolina and will send them to me with a few other things i need. does anyone have any recommendations on a on line supplier?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 14, 2011, 08:20:35 PM »

For the money I would just replace the screws, why bother spending the time.
Yes i think a 12mm one would work, mines 16mm. i would go 20mm for the Z, mines 16mm.
I got mine from Chai in hong kong her ebay contact is: http://myworld.ebay.com.au/linearmotionbearings2008/

cheers

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 14, 2011, 05:17:36 PM »

Yeah plastic nuts might work, I've got a set of them but have not yet used em.
X axis was very very hard as the clearances are really tight, I think if I were doing it again i would make a whole new slide that was say 50mm thick as apposed to the standard 20mm I think it is, but then again I think if I were doing it again I would build the whole thing from scratch.
I sort of had an idea that i wanted a fully enclosed lathe, they look way cool and for me keeping the mess in and out was a must apart from that I just maid it up as I went along. tip: Next time i would get the sheet metal cut and folded first then build the frame inside the sheet metal, this way you can use the sheet to keep everything square. mine is square but it took a hell of a lot to get her there.
I got my steppers from http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=25 i used the 269 for the X and the 287 for the Z with 1:1 timing pulleys, it does 3.5mps on rapids (speed was important)


Hope this helps

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 14, 2011, 07:54:51 AM »

Simple, accuracy. I have put this on the dial and get about .03 - .02 mm accuracy, you have no hope of getting those sort of results with the standard screws in fact i would be surprised if you could get it within .2.

I sill have a lot to do on this machine before its finished, if i was doing it again i would do a lot different. most of the things I'd do different wold be the enclosure not the machine.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 09, 2011, 07:10:56 PM »

how to embed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ3m7R_h4E

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: June 09, 2011, 07:03:43 PM »

its alive:

<a href="http://&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HhZ3m7R_h4E?hl=en&amp;fs=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HhZ3m7R_h4E?hl=en&amp;fs=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HhZ3m7R_h4E?hl=en&amp;fs=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HhZ3m7R_h4E?hl=en&amp;fs=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</a>

Yes i know i should have screw covers and way covers bla bla..... I needed the part.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: May 30, 2011, 08:53:38 AM »

Yeah thats to configure them,but how to select during operation?
In mill you just punch in what gear your in on that page, turn wont let me do that, i, running silver/blue screen set.

thx

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: AL54b (lathe) project from New Zealand

« on: May 30, 2011, 07:22:02 AM »

Call me daft but can someone help me figure out where to change the spindle number in mach3 turn, it seems to be fixed at  pulley number 1?
Also I'm after an OEM code for Spindle CW toggle? (the equivalent of 173) im trying to rig up a manual forward and reverse switch.

thx