Any Lathe is better than no Lathe
I have been looking at dropping a good chunk of change on a Lathe as my tame go to guy has more or less retired at age 83 and then this rustic toy turned up for sale 5 minutes drive from home for not very much. $300 AUpesos with metric and imperial change gears a little tooling and a faceplate so it will do me while I save likely at least 10X that lot for what I want to get.
I have an old Microsoft Kinect.
What is this open source mapping software you talk of?
It sounds very interesting.
Any Lathe is better than no Lathe
I have been looking at dropping a good chunk of change on a Lathe as my tame go to guy has more or less retired at age 83 and then this rustic toy turned up for sale 5 minutes drive from home for not very much. $300 AUpesos with metric and imperial change gears a little tooling and a faceplate so it will do me while I save likely at least 10X that lot for what I want to get.
I have the same lathe, it's good but the gibs and carriage needed a bit of love to get rigidity.
I don't like the plastic bearing at the end of the leadscrew, in mine it was kind of cracked and broke while carrying it in the car.
Any Lathe is better than no Lathe
I have been looking at dropping a good chunk of change on a Lathe as my tame go to guy has more or less retired at age 83 and then this rustic toy turned up for sale 5 minutes drive from home for not very much. $300 AUpesos with metric and imperial change gears a little tooling and a faceplate so it will do me while I save likely at least 10X that lot for what I want to get.
I have the same lathe, it's good but the gibs and carriage needed a bit of love to get rigidity.
I don't like the plastic bearing at the end of the leadscrew, in mine it was kind of cracked and broke while carrying it in the car.
Yep not the most rigid slide mech on the BV20 so I am considering removing the Compound and replacing it with a spacer block. 98% of what I am likely to be doing will be parallel turning, bores and threads so not a big loss and can be swapped back if needed. Robrenz and Stefan Gotteswinter have videos on youtube showing this mod.
The whole lead screw on this one needs some 'help' the split pin holding the screw to the gearbox allows 1-2mm lateral travel and the plastic block will likely get an Aluminium/Bearing replacement.
Also some more mods here on one too if you haven't found it http://mrjones.id.au/html/bv-20_lathe.html
bought most of what i need for my 'Lumen Tube' project today. (not my design/idea)
three 4" elbows and a step down for the light meter (UT383BT) bit.
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Depends on how you cut them really and doing a few other tweaks to the Lathe is needed too.
Depends on how you cut them really and doing a few other tweaks to the Lathe is needed too.Sure you can get away with plunge cuts for threading in the smaller sizes or fine pitches but jump up in size with ISO coarse, Whitworth or UNC and use a plunge thread cut instead of compound cutting and it won't go well.
Ok, you got me curious. What is your "Lumen Tube" project?
Depends on how you cut them really and doing a few other tweaks to the Lathe is needed too.Sure you can get away with plunge cuts for threading in the smaller sizes or fine pitches but jump up in size with ISO coarse, Whitworth or UNC and use a plunge thread cut instead of compound cutting and it won't go well.
Compound isn't going away just won't be fitted for general use. Reality is everything I do will be M12 and down 98% of the time. What is this 'Whitworth and UNC' you speak of anyway in our metricated world
I had sort of planned on a Lathe in the early part of next year so this is just a filler and will help me do some odds and ends in house.
A tiny SkyTronic DMM, acquired from a tool stall at our local 'Antiques Emporium' for £2.
On Friday, I received orders for 2 of my Generator Autostart ATS Control Panels.
Spent some time on Saturday, and most of this afternoon completing the board layout.
>then this evening I Just spent over ZAR700 (about a tank of petrol) with ITEADSTUDIO
>for 10 off 10x10cm Prototype PCB's
>Most of the cost was for the DHL shipping.
>I just couldn't wait 4 months for the standard shipping.
>Now I have my fingers crossed that they will arrive in 2 weeks!
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I've had bad luck with this kind of chair over the years and now consider them disposable