[email protected] wrote: > I enjoy reading about y'all and your terrawatt spindle motors with bits that > require a mobile crane to load but what about small > What if I wanted to make say watch parts > And I will qualify that by saying a watch for us normal size folks > And I am sure y'all with deep pockets can come up with links to all sorts of > commercial equipment but what about us hobbiest > I realize small is not necessarily the best description because accuracy is > the main requirement > Anyone ever built such a creature > It shouldn't be very hard. Making (or retrofitting) a small machine solves a couple accuracy/resolution problems just by reducing mass, thermal expansion, etc. Tiny ballscrews are seen on eBay all the time.
If you are talking about a lathe, you might look at a jewelers/watchmakers lathe. There are several small milling machines that might make good candidates. On the other hand, I am sure I could build watch parts on my Bridgeport mill with no problem. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
