Make a new shaft for that little bench-mount hand crank drill press I have! bart

Today, I used it to finish a bead rolling tool for metal spinning. The other day I was using it to make 1" burner parts. I have found the metal lathe to be VERY handy indeed!! I just wish it was BIGGER!!!

I already have one of the first Shop Smith combo tools which is a lathe, table saw, disk sander, horizontal boring machine plus it also tilts up to use as a drill press.
This machine is designed for wood, and don't think it would do too well to turn metal.

If I had a nice metal lathe I would make small cannons such as little ones for a desktop and most certainly larger swivel gun size ones for firing off and repelling boarders :-)

I have 5 metal lathes and would be lost without them. I am the mr fixit of the neighborhood. Everyone brings me their parts to fix...Bob

This was my first project on my little lathe about two years ago. It is an AR-15 firing pin that I turned from O-1.



Greebe

I have a nice 3way machine. I know first thought is HF. Check out Shoptask. Paid $2500
for a slightly used one with about every acc piece. Unit is setup for CNC and DRO havent
felt the need.
Ken

Hi, KEN, have you made anything on your lathe, my first project was a little compressed air engine,it has a 1/4 bore/5/16 stroke runs good and I had a great time making it. camphor.

Camphor, I bought the machine for a coustomer that quit on me. Metric parts. Have used it here to make my gulliotine, Have seen other guys machine 350 flywheels, brake rotors, one guy built a working turbo V 8 ngine. Why over my head.
Ken

At whatever point I can get the one I am dreaming of resurecting I plan on learning to spin hemisperes. I have a few home-build tool projects it would help with.

I wonder if I could do the cable twist on my chandoliers with it?
Hmmm....


Kendrick

Kendrick, you're drooling!! That would sure be a nice tool to have. Man the projects that could be done more efficiently are endless. :)

If i had a CNC lathe, i would make something like this:
YouTube - How it's made-Albion Sword

Edited October 2, 200916 yr by melonkernel

I acquired a fixer-upper last weekend. It has a lot more missing or broken parts than I knew about when I acquired it. Fortunately I did not pay much for it. Apparently the lady's uncle (who inherited his father's pristine South Bend lathe) "modernized" it by removing lots of parts and even breaking off a lever, then sticking a pulley wheel on the end of the lathe. Apparently it was a very nice lathe before this guy inherited it.

The uncle deserves to have the location of his grave posted to the Internet so that every metal worker within driving distance can visit and xxxx on his grave.

I have sent for a bunch of parts to fix this lathe and try to get it running again. Not the cost effective way of getting a working lathe, but I look at it as a learning experience, and a way of acquiring a lathe on the installment plan as I can afford it.

Just my opinion,
Live long and prosper, may La Forge be with you. (come on guys, a Star Trek character named "The Forge") I don't hear the laughter.
Dave E.

Edited August 7, 201015 yr by Glenn

I have a nice 3way machine. I know first thought is HF. Check out Shoptask. ....Ken

I went to their website.

1. I did not see any used machines.
2. Their website performed that trick that prevents the viewer from pressing the "back" button to return to the previous website or search page. Personally, I don't patronize companies that execute code to alter what I can do with my web browsing and/or make their site "sticky".

Just my thought and opinion.

Edited October 2, 200916 yr by UnicornForge

I just started my pre-employment course for a machinist, the lathe is by far my favorite machine to run, so cool. If we were allowed I would make a little blackpowder cannon, and really make it fancy. So far I've made a plumb bob and a step shaft.

I just started my pre-employment course for a machinist, the lathe is by far my favorite machine to run, so cool. If we were allowed I would make a little blackpowder cannon, and really make it fancy. So far I've made a plumb bob and a step shaft.

I would first read "The Artillerist Manual" available free online at The Artillery Reserve it might save your life! They stopped putting decorations on cannon barrels because the decorations made the canon barrels even more likely to blow up. :(

melonkernel: Hate to rain on your parade, but that's not a CNC lathe. It's VMC or CNC vertical milling machine.

melonkernel: Hate to rain on your parade, but that's not a CNC lathe. It's VMC or CNC vertical milling machine.

oops. Well, then i would want one of those


[edit] Actually, i though i heard lathe at 0:41 in the video, but it was "computer guided blades", i think.
p.s. lathe is an english word i have come into contact with anywhere else than here, so i have not heard anyone pronounce it. My guess is that i rhymes with blade. but then again there are exceptions to everyting and I could be wrong.

Edited October 17, 200916 yr by melonkernel

Lathe: rhymes with the verb "bathe". Yes I have a "Vertical Machining Center" (nyaa!). And they are very cool, but I don't do anything like that.

A "nordic brother"! I'm Norsk, can you tell (square head give me away)?

Edited October 17, 200916 yr by nakedanvil