eh...wonder if interstitialwidgets.com taken? We are talkin' cottage industry here. If you took the time to scope my post about the guy who made a crucible so he could make a lathe, you would understand how seriously phat the idea of reverse engineering the home tech lab/garage is to me. Like ten years from now he will have went from making a crucible to make a lathe, to making an mini-engineering plant to create his back yard super collider and space shuttle.

Did the lathe actually arrive looking like that? Or did you leave it on the pallet while you assembled it? All the big machinery I ever got required hours of assembly and tuning. First thing I usually do it drag the various part to the machine's final location before assembly.

Anyway, I have major lathe envy.

__x, I did take the time to look at your fun with molten metal
link. Nice page. I wish a few of the steps were described in
more detail, though. I've tried my hand at casting using zinc
melted out of US pennies over my kitchen stove. Unfortunately
it didn't have near the detail I wanted.

Edited by author 08-22-2003 06:59 PM
Lindsay's Technical Publications is the home of all your retro metal casting and mad scientist needs!

Presumably, your new lathe has an automatice screw advance? If so, it's not *totally* manual (though still analog).

Eli-
LOL!

you can build a fax machine from a lathe. as in turn it into one, all you need is two lathes and a phoneline.

tim hunkin did it in his program the secret life of machines.

What are you gonna do with a lathe?

  It is a BEAUTIFUL lathe, Steve---------CNC used to mean Cincinnati Numerical Control ( at that time it was prolly spelled correctly, too) used to punch tape---now I guess CD????? or just PC controlled---------------ENJOY---watch your fingers---------best---paretree

godlessone:

If you gotta ask, you ain't ever gonna know.

Well, actually: You make things with it. If you build models, or robots, or restore old cars, they're invalable.

I use my lathe to add to my priceless collection of shiny twisty metal shavings.

The lathe is an ancient machine. Examples were found in the remains of Mesapotamia. When iron and steel could be turned to precise tolerances (within a 16th of an inch) the Industrial Revolution began. Very few machines can be made without this machine. Some of the things the US prohibits from export to terrorist nations are lathes.

Very nice. How much does this one cost?

Ian:

Would you like my collection of twisty balsa shavings? I'd put them on eBay but wanted to offer them to a true afficianado first.

Now you'll have to get all your mics, callipers, dial indicators, etc. If you had a bridgeport mill and a centerless grinder, you could literally build anything!!!!

Lathes are badass but before you start turning threads with it get a machinist handbook.

Edited by author 09-03-2003 08:44 PM
Here's a challenge. Uilleann bagpipe chanter with a tapered, not conical, internal bore. How to do that on a lathe, cnc or otherwise?

Your lathe is much nicer than the Harbor Freight 19" Chinese model ;o)