The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

just send an email with drawing to skf and i'm waiting for a price. I asked for 2 motor driven units (inkl everything) and one extra motor for the platter. this would be awesome if not too expensive because we hoock it up and it will work:) check this out http://www.linearsysteme.skf.de/en/8/datashe...

Hey guys i found something. http://www.linearsysteme.skf.de//home.aspx?lang=en&cou=8 they have a large variety of Guiding systems. Really precise and it's off the self already made! @ mossboss you are right with stepper motor and tooth belt but i reckon this is getting a bit too complicated to be ho...

Hi Mark,
To be honest i do not think that most of the parts used on this little lathe would be accurate enough.
Just think about the guides.
We are talking about a play of 0.01 mm which is 0.0004 Inch.
All tolerances have to be very tight.
Some parts would be usable I guess.
I don't know.....

If we would mount thr microscope in front of the cutting head (using a little mounting bracket the we would save money and we wouldn't have to fuck around with building a stand for this and stuff...
So you could always check the grooves you are cutting

This sounds very good all up:) So Who knows the most about lathes? I guess you guys are all from the states so I assume this project would have be done in american standard? Imperial or can it be metric? The thing is we might be able to get of the shelf parts.. I reckon the goal would be: -Lathe des...

ok here again http://s841.photobucket.com/albums/zz338/fraggle_79/

ok i made something took me all day but at the moment it is just a concept!
hopefully this works here wit photo upload....

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I think this depends. I have never used a neumann lathe but it looks like you can adjust this manually and automatically. But the good thing is with servo motors there would be no need to do anything by hand. all the motors could be driven by switches (really slow) and when your head is in position ...

sub I really do not know but to be honest i reckon it"s not a problem nowadays to get a really strong motor 10 times as strong as the bloddy technics:) I know where souri gets his motors from hehe. There is just one big manufacturer in south germany and the make loads of motors .I"ll check. I don"t ...

Hey can anybody tell me how to upload photos here?

It would not be so much more effort to redesign a vms maybe a simplified version but with a proper platter and a strong motor. The platter from a technics is just (shit)it's totally uneven if you measure it. and working with servo motors would be an awesome idea controlled by a software! There is a ...

this sounds awesome...
I need to get a loan:)

@ kino9 I'm working as a mechancial engineer here in oz designing machinery. would you be able to design this yourself? I reckon I could design something similar (just the mechanical Part) But I'm not familiar with servo motors.... BUT we would only need one Motor for the platter. One servo motor to...

it would not be a problem to make a scully late if you have the machinery and you are a tradesman.. I reckon the elctronic Part of it and to find the motors and stuff would be more difficult....

i have no idea how to upload a photo to be honest.
Maybe someone else can help?

hm for some reason i cannot watch it simon..

Hi Mike,
yeah a few Photos of the bearing and platter would be awesome.
Cheers Boris

you are right you probably will get shot!

Thanks for any offers

good luck with that simon.
looks great hopefully you can find more technical information or someone with the same lathe can take some photos!
very nice dude:)