On 13 June 2013 17:49, Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> wrote:
> Your cautionary LeBlond Tale of Terror argues in favor of converting to > CNC instead of restoring old machinery. If you have 90% of a > functioning lathe, it's a lot easier to strip out the 40% that you don't > need for CNC rather than try to find or fabricate the missing or damaged > 10%... and your efforts will be rewarded with a more capable CNC machine. I agree to an extent, but I think it depends on the class of work that you are doing. For unusual one-off setups I suspect that a conventional job-shop lathe is probably a more useful layout than a dedicated CNC. (As an example, many CNC lathes don't even have a tailstock). I all too often "think in metal" and watch the part I need appear progressively as I design it concurrently with making it. This is a bit more of a challenge with a dedicated CNC with guards and bar-feeders and the rest of the stuff. I don't think I have seen a dedicated CNC with a fixed steady either (because if you need a fixed steady and can afford a CNC lathe then you probably have a better tool for the job. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
