You all know by now that I have one of those toy 7x12 lathes, this one with a Speedway decal on it.
In looking for a place to put the crossfeed motor, it occurs to me the best place is probably on an extension bar (I have a good sized sheet of 1/4" alu) that places the motor facing away from the operator and extending back and under the bed. A single flat plate on the face of the carriage extending downward could serve as the motor mount, and a belt cover could be carved to help keep the swarf out of things. This assumes that a couple of nominally 1" blocks were placed under the beds feet to raise it for motor clearance since it sits about 1/2" too low to clear as nema 23 motor under it now. While thinking about that, it occurred to me to ask if it would help to add some additional mass to the bed (this whole toy only weighs about 79 lbs) by setting those 'feet' on another steel plate, either under the splash pan, or in it, that would span the length of the bed and possibly help stiffen it? Is it worth my touring the recycling facilities to look for something in the 10" wide by 24" long & an inch thick, in fairly mild steel that I could saw the end off to make the 'feet' and use the rest of it as a mass and stiffening tabletop? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
