Lathes doing great, been using it for quite a while now but its just recently that I have got the front toolpost up and running and that was a bit of a hassle to get done in Mach. Brians working on Front/Rear toolpost selection soon so should be good in the end, at the moment I am having to do a workaround but it also works fine.
I ended up getting Allen Bradley DSD drives, well one Allen Bradley and one Giddings and Lewis DSA drive but essentially they are the same thing apart from the colour and name
I have 10Nm AC servo on the Z axis and a 7Nm on the X, both copuple 1:1 through timing belt and pulley (original spec) rapids are restricted to 3400mm/min at the moment as I wasnt happy with the slow speed cogging due to electronic gearing in the drives. Once the threading sync is done in the SmoothStepper then I will put one on the lathe and potentially I could put the rapids up to 15M/min without any electronic gearing or 30M/min with the 2:1 gelectronic gearing that I have at the moment, I think 10 will be more than enough though
, the original was 5M/min.
I have a couple of vids on You Tube of the lathe, noithing exciting but it does show it working, still doesnt really show the size of the lathe, just wish I could get a shot of it and my Colchester Triumph side by side.
You will see the vids here
http://www.youtube.com/user/HoodScotlandHave some pics of the finished control panel etc but they are at home so will have to add them later.
Hood