What machines are in your home hobby shop?
What machines are in your home hobby shop?
Bridgeport Clone, Metal Bandsaw, 14x40 Engine Lathe, 7" Pedistal Grinder, 6:x12" Manual Surface Grinder, Floor Stand Drill Press, 1-Ton Arbor Press, Oxy-Acetylene with B-Tanks, Finished homemade CNC Router, all in a 9'x25' space! :rolleyes:
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WOW! My new machines arrived today!
Like clockwork, the forklift I rented arrived at 9:00AM, the friend I talked to last evening showed up at 10:00AM, and at 11:00AM the flatbed truck arrived with my new machines on top!
After several hours of shuffeling the machines and removing the skids, the new machines were in position in my little garage shop! I now have a tool & die shop setup in a 25x9 foot section of my double garage! With a little more work, I'll actually be able to get the car in there as well!
As you can see from the yellow lines on the floor, I had planned the placement carefully days in advance!
The next job is to build a partition wall 6ft high out of 2x4's, and put 1/4 ply on the shop side of the partition. This will help keep the debris away from my car, and provide a path for the lathe's electrical box. Not to mention a place to hang all my frequently used stuff!
Then, when the Heavy Duty Phase Converter arrives, I will start wiring the 3-phase surface grinder to my house's single phase breaker box! I have also ordered a 36x62 rubber mat for in front of the lathe, its made from old tires, I hope none of them were steel belted radials! :rolleyes:
Then I need to level the machines and fill the coolant tanks, the surface grinder is the easiest to level, as it has three monster screws in its heavy cast iron base :)
This is an exciting time, so much that I forgot to take pictures in the beginning! (bummer) (chair)
Oh yea, the New 13x40 lathe, the Used 6x12 surface grinder, and a used 6" Kurt mill vise cost me $5483, pluse $170 delivery, plus $125 for forllift rental.
Now I really need to make some parts to sell!
Uploaded more pictures on 04/20/06
Eric
It's a little discouraging and getting expensive!
All day Friday I worked on retrofitting a 5C Collet Closer on to my new lathe, it was new from the same manufacturer as the lathe! First I had to make an adapter to fit the closer to the end of the spindle, then I had to drill holes in the gearbox near the edge, to maount the ancor bar for the collet closer. when all that was done, i realized the drawbar thread was messed up, and would not take a standard 5C collet! So i dismanteled the whole unit, and put the draw bar in the lathe chuck and re pointed the 20-pitch thread to fit the collet (what a pain in the ass to pick up an exsisting thread)!
Then I re assembled the whole unit, re-mounted it on the end of the lathe, and fount it to be totally impossible to adjust the tension of the collet closing, because of some hidden spring loaded pint in the revolving part of the unit! That was aggrivating! Then i realized the unit would NOT work above 600 RPM! Now that made me mad! :boxing:
My lathe has a maximum of 2000 RPM, and it started to walk across the floor! The Chinese Collet Closer was so poorly made, nothing on it was concentric! Aand impossible to repair, short of remanufacturing 90% of the unit!
So Monday Morning I will be battling the distributor who sold it to me, and I will insist on getting my money back!
I did a little research, and found that KBC tools & MSC Supply both sell a Hardinge grade collet closer for $1000, thats my last resort, if I can not get a used one !
Live and learn!
Eric (chair)