JHOLLAND1
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2005
- Location
- western washington state
One of the real joys of the global web is stumbling upon a gem of creation. Such is the case with the You Tube videos of a one off lathe in the UK. The inventor and builder, Mr AJ, writes the following:
"Yes I made this machine it is my own design. The headstock and tailstock can be raised or lowered relative to the lathe bed and carriage. This enables the machine to be used as a vertical or horizontal milling machine and perform many other versatile tasks.The milling head can be mounted on the horizontal overarm creating a vertical mill. Stepper motors are used to drive the carriage ,cross slide and the mandrel. this enables many CNC or manual operations to be performed. It was entered in the Model Engineering Exhibition at Ascot UK where it was awarded a Gold medal and the Bowyer-Lowe Challenge Cup. I have recently written an article on it which will be published in Model Engineers Workshop magazine in due course."
http://www.youtube.com/user/jackary2003
"Yes I made this machine it is my own design. The headstock and tailstock can be raised or lowered relative to the lathe bed and carriage. This enables the machine to be used as a vertical or horizontal milling machine and perform many other versatile tasks.The milling head can be mounted on the horizontal overarm creating a vertical mill. Stepper motors are used to drive the carriage ,cross slide and the mandrel. this enables many CNC or manual operations to be performed. It was entered in the Model Engineering Exhibition at Ascot UK where it was awarded a Gold medal and the Bowyer-Lowe Challenge Cup. I have recently written an article on it which will be published in Model Engineers Workshop magazine in due course."
http://www.youtube.com/user/jackary2003