The New Toys, and the Boys
The new lathe and the milling machine in the shed 15th June 2003.
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The Lathe on the Left, the milling machine in foreground. The Crew - from the Left - Stephen Saunders, Jeff Cohen, James, John Tuddin, Robin Young ( obscured ), Daniel Tuddin, Ian " Casey " Pullman, Peter Auld.
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The lathe and the Crew. John, Daniel, Robin, Peter, James, Jeff, Bruce Weinel, and Steve.
Tech Specs, and more shots of the Lathe, the Mill and tools -
[ measurements are in millimeters if not specified]
Lathe has gear head, 1000mm bed, 330mm swing (with removable bed
section for larger swing), thread cutting, ISO tools & full
suite of accessories.
Milling machine has X-Y-Z with +/-90deg.
tilt on dove-tail Z-axis, rotary table, ISO & conventional mills,
full suite of slot/end mills, chuck & collets to 25mm, keyless
chuck, boring and facing cutters, clamp set and precision vices.
Both use #3 morse taper and 12mm tools to ease tool interchange.
Technically, the milling machine is X=500(in 730), Y=210(in 270),
Z=130(in 500) with +/-90deg. tilt, 1.1KW motor, ~400Kg on stand.
The lathe is Centers=1000, Swing: over bed=330, over slide=180,
over gap=480, Spindle bore=38, 9 speeds, 40 AF (4-56TPI) and 29
metric (0.35-4.5mm) thread pitches, 2hp motor, ~500Kg on stand.
Lathe on stand with tools.
Lathe tools (close-up on tool holder)
Lathe (close-up on geared head).
Lathe tools.
Mill tools.
Mill on stand with tools.
Mill tools (close-up on tools box). This wooden box was beautifully made by Bruce, who will obviously be doing all the woodwork from now on !!
Bench grinder on stand (with the Maestro hard at work).