[Asso]

Good morning community, i will show you what i'm doing...
i have an old Lathe DI PALO and i decided to retrofit with a cnc system...
i started with the project, and bought all the necessary to make that work:
30 mm INA linear guide for the axis;
20-05 THK balls screw with ballnut for short axes;
25-05 balls screw with double ballnut THK for long axes;
2 servomotors leadshine with relative servodriver 400w for the axis;
1 servomotor MAB with DigitAx driver 1.5 KW for the spindle;
all the necessary for the lubrification and to make it works.
here you can see the first fothos of the lathe, with the project and the starting works...

[Asso]

the works go on
when i finished the paint i started with the solution you can see in the pictures for drill the original guide using the original carriage, in this way i had the perfect parallelism...
after mount i used the instruments to regulated them, then assembly...

[Asso]

well, i made the new carriage for short axes and i mount the short guide on it with lubrification sistem and all the parts made by me

[Asso]

well, then i removed all the gear in the box of the spindle and i made the pulley and i prepare to mount the motor on the box, the one you see on the lathe is not the motor i will use, i just try with that

[Asso]

now i will show the automatic turret i'm building for my lathe.
all it's made with C60 steel and 38ndc4 steel

[Asso]

more

[Asso]

more abaut the turret

[Asso]

other abaut the turret and here you can see how it looks like mounted on the lathe.
anyway i will mount a 160mm chuk (the original is 250mm)

[Asso]

the last pictures abaut the tool post i made, i made the one for the tool as you can see, then i made some tool post with er25 cullet for the drills and some like weldom for interior tools.
Here it's possible also to see the lock system i build for that...
please let me know what you thins abaut!

[AndreasL]

Amazing!

Please show us more.

[Asso]

thanks AndreasL, i will post pictures as soon i made!

[dws1234]

centerless grinding is very useful for the machinery purpose .its good because centerless grinding gives support to machine in the mid point and machine done work properly.

[asuratman]

Asso,

Here it's possible also to see the lock system i build for that...

Show me your lockscrew on your toolholder

[Asso]

asuratman,

i turned a back side of the toolholder with a 60° conic side, then i made the drill you can see on the plate corrispective with the conic side.
i also turned the screw as you can see in the photo with a 55° conic side, well when you lock the screw in the side you will block the toolholder in the desiderate position.
Anyway i have an other screw in the back side of the toolholder

[Asso]

works is going on, i decided to make the lock system with a clutch moved by an air piston, i bought a 50mm diameter so i will have a 160kg at 8 atm.

[hesham morsy]

well done

[wizard]

You have a very interesting project here, please continue to update us as time goes on.

[Asso]

news, the clutch looks like a good idea, it works well, i tried tu turn the turret but it's very hard

[RotarySMP]

Nice collection of machines you have there.

[Asso]

i finally got the servomotor for the axes, two AC servo Yaskawa 850W with 2 servodriver DigitAx 2,2Kw