Tensilathe CNC Lathe

terminfekin · Jul 7, 2020

Hi Folks,

I have been offered a free CNC lathe designed for cutting tensile test specimens. The board on the lathe itself is not working, so it was headed to the scrap pile. I am wondering if anyone has insight into either converting a lathe like this into a more general CNC machine, or retrofitting it to a simple manual machine.

The lathe is a Tensilathe, by Tensilkut. A bit more info can be seen here: CNC Tensilathe

Thanks

706jim · Jul 7, 2020

I'm only commenting because we owned a Victor CNC lathe that pretty much only made tensile test specimens. Hundreds of them. You know that this part will require a number of tool changes and the machine you are showing is a glorified engine lathe IMO. Making tensile bars on that thing will get old quickly.

GENERALDISARRAY · Jul 8, 2020

Jim
I think he wants to know if he could use it for things other than specimens.

OP;
YES!

head on over to the stepper ZONE they got exactly what you knead.

ddlaz · Nov 19, 2020

Did you ever pick this up? Thinking about picking one up as well. Can't seem to find any info on converting this for general use.

DDoug · Nov 19, 2020

ddlaz said:
Did you ever pick this up? Thinking about picking one up as well. Can't seem to find any info on converting this for general use.

Read post #3 again

ddlaz · Dec 2, 2020

digger doug said:
Read post #3 again

OP didn't respond on whether he picked it up or not.

Not sure what/where the "stepper zone" is. Googled it but didn't seem to come up with anything like a forum or even a subforum here. Sorry. New to the PM forum.

Illinoyance · Dec 2, 2020

I had a Miford MiniKop tracer lathe for doing tensile specimens. It had a hydraulic tracer on the back of the cross slide. It might be possible to convert the machine to a tracer lathe. A far as I can see the operation of the MiniKop would have been as fast as a
cnc lathe.

ddlaz · Dec 4, 2020

Thanks for the response.
The tensilathe software is a bit clunky but I just loaded a dxf of something other than a specimen and it cut it just fine. Safe to say, it can turn things other than a tensile specimen.

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