Beautifull job budman68 , here is my taig I will over the winter do a second unit with proper steppers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WI0MIzlHE

Thanks, Peter and thank you also for sharing the video.

Absolutely great stuff - 

Dave

Dave,
Keep it up and you'll need a shop expansion.
Nice lathe and hope it works well. You got to admit there is definitely some satisfaction
in building your owne stuff.

Peter,
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I don't know Rich did I miss something here

Pete,
When i watched the video from your link above there was morse code in the background and figured that
you deliberately put it in. Maybe it''s just me as the same thing happens when i go to the grocery store check out.
To manny radio operator code competitions. I quess.
  RICH

Nice work, I like the 10K rpm 

Thanks fellas, it's a lot of fun, that's for sure....-just wish I had more time.......

Dave

LOL......no Rich thats part of the song but yes it kind of does now that you mention it ........maybe it is................

Sorry for hijacking your thread Dave , what upgrade do you have in mind next . Nick carters website is a goldmine of idea,s

lol, no worries, Peter, that stuff doesn't bother me at all in a "show whatcha got" kind of thread.

As for upgrades, although I'm a sucker for gadgets and add-ons, I think I want to take the time and actually learn how to use the damn thing.  I'm new to the cnc thing to begin with and I've come a long way since only a year ago when I bought my taig but the cnc lathe is just a whole different animal to learn to program. I don't even have a decent CAM program for the lathe yet as it's either pull your hair out with something cheap or spend $800-$1200 for something that I know nothing about. Sure, there are demos out there but I've found that sometimes you still don't like a product even though you've had some time to test it, ya know?

I would like to make a nice heat sink for the DC motor, alomost like a covering of aluminum fins. We'll see, I'm sure I'll think up more schtuff along the way- 

Thanks,
Dave

Kind of like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRYa0NRBaI