[blades]

Hey guys,

I've been in contact with Sieg regarding parts for the KC0 lathe, which they no longer produce for whatever reason. My first go-around with them gave me a price of $229 for every possible piece that would be needed for the conversion, right down to the last nut & bolt. Didn't seem bad, but then they said it would be $100 for shipping. I wasn't sure I wanted to spend that much on my $82 lathe.

I took another look at what would REALLY be "necessary" to do the conversion, and I came up with the following parts and prices, which seem really cheap. Only problem is, they don't have P/N 154, which is the large timing pulley. I suppose I could find out how many teeth it is, and find one at SDP or some such place. These part numbers are taken from the .PDF list & drawing that knudsen so kindly posted on the HF mini-lathe thread a few weeks ago. The prices they gave me are FOB, meaning you still have to pay for shipping to the US. If we had enough people interested in a group buy, we could probably get the total price of the items below to around $75 or so. Total is $58.37 without shipping.
We'd have to source our own motors & hardware. I assume (yeah, yeah, I know...) that the motor brackets are for NEMA 17 motors. I also didn't include the hardware for the limit switches, because I think they are a single-direction switch or what they call a "Home position" switch. I imagine those components wouldn't add more than another $10 to the price.

Anyone interested in a group buy?


P/N QTY PRICE TOTAL

173 1 $2.10 $2.10
172 2 $1.80 $3.60
171 2 $5.52 $11.04
160 1 $3.65 $3.65
152 1 $1.60 $1.60
153 1 $1.22 $1.22
154 1 $- $0.00
155 2 $0.18 $0.36
156 2 $2.60 $5.20
158 2 $0.18 $0.36
157 2 $4.00 $8.00
167 1 $0.90 $0.90
166 1 $1.22 $1.22
162 1 $12.20 $12.20
168 1 $4.32 $4.32
175 1 $2.60 $2.60

$58.37

[blades]

Knudsen? I figured you'd be interested in this! :rainfro:

[knudsen]

Ahhh, I missed the thread... I don't think I'll be CNCing mine any time soon. It would be the one to CNC though, as that would eliminate the weakness of the lacking crossfeed.

I might be more interested in speeding it up a bit. And, of course, making all the gizmos we need to have like a tailstock chuck. I started an arbor, got to cutting the m14 x 1 thread and that spun off several side projects including the recent gear I was so proud of.

WHEN WILL IT END???

:rainfro::rainfro::rainfro:

[blades]

I saw that gear buddy! NICE!
Not sure if I'll end up doing the CNC thing or not on this one, but if I can get the parts shipped cheap enough I will pick them up. Just waiting to hear back from them on shipping. The guy I'm talking with said that because it would be a really small & light order it could probably go express, which is supposedly cheaper. We'll see.........