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novocaine wrote:Vertical slide on the cross slide of your lathe. Suddenly your lathe works as a horizontal mill.
Nice work with the saw and file, its damned hard work. Im lazy, i like cold chisels.
Mike G wrote:Nice? I was thinking "brilliant". I had to do some metal filing today, and I'm pretty careful......but measuring it afterwards was a little embarrassing.
novocaine wrote:
Vertical slide on the cross slide of your lathe. Suddenly your lathe works as a horizontal mill.
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:novocaine wrote:
Vertical slide on the cross slide of your lathe. Suddenly your lathe works as a horizontal mill.
Absolutely....PROVIDED your lathe can be adjusted to provide the rigidity of a mill. I tried it on a lathe just slightly smaller than an ML7 and the chatter was dire. I 'borrowed' a Bridgedale clone with a big chunky collet and tooling to match, no competition. Paradoxically, Bob Loader used to do very well (with minute cuts) on his tiny wee Unisomething lathe. I suspect experience counts and Bob was able to lock everything much more rigidly than I did - and I probably tried to 'hog off' too much with each pass. I still lust after a benchtop mill, something like a Dore Westbury, no room for a floor mounted one.
Sam
I came out with some methods of doing some very specific milling jobs on the lathe that worked very well, but they were only any good when I was milling right in the middle of a bit of bar stock (i.e. where the vertical slide wasn't required).
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:I had access to an old, lovely, Colchester in Bangor Tech too, cracking machine, rigid as hell and 40-60 thou roughing cuts? Easy. Then 10 steps to a brand new Bridgeport clone...drool. The only thing Colchester faltered on was a piece of ceramic rocket fuselage what 'fell off a lorry' from Shorts...more tooling inadequacy than lack of power or finesse...
by Trevanion » Today, 14:56
This is mine, a CVA MK1A
droogs wrote:@Trevanion, that's a rather lot of knobs to have on an Aga
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:Nice bit of kit, Dan. I'm assuming self-act in both dimensions, judging by the levers on the cross slide? And, is that a Reeves Drive control on the L.H. pedestal?
Sam
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:Late edit: spindle speed selector?
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