O.K. After a few years of contemplating installing an ELS I have been pushed over the edge. I have a cheep Chineese lathe that "will do threading" with change gears. I have used lathes with...
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O.K. After a few years of contemplating installing an ELS I have been pushed over the edge. I have a cheep Chineese lathe that "will do threading" with change gears. I have used lathes with...
I am in the process of of adding live tooling to an emco 6, I need a milling/drilling head that could work for both for the X and Z axis. I have seen the Sherline machines around and thought that...
You are trying to compare two very different machines. I to make small parts that can become quite complex. It is amazing just how much machining you can do all in a half inch block of aluminum,...
Last year at the Gears show in Portland, I attended a seminar on home brew cnc machine construction and programming. There have been some hobby cnc vendors and displays at the show in the past.
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You are not going to get +-.002 out of it but +- .005 is more along the range. For a lot of work that is more than adequate. What I find it most useful for is very quick positioning holes that have...
I actually mounted the scale to the yoke by way of a horizontal F shaped transition plate and mounted the reader head to the base by way of a small adjustable plate. The actual stroke of the Y axis...
I have a Bridgeport, it is accurate, can take a hefty cut, it is big. If I am working in stainless or hard metals I will use it, or if I am doing something large.
Limitations to consider for...