Lovely seeing you keeping that little lathe alive! As a machine fanatic and a physics lunatic, i always enjoy seeing people who love machines and do their best to allow the machine to outlive the operator and end up in better state than when first adopted... Nice work at any rate, and nice surface finish from that lathe aswell... All the best and kindest regards! Steuss

I have been into model engineering for over 35 years and in engineering as an occupation, but I have never seen any use for cnc in the home workshop.

@DadsShed-om4lz

7 ай бұрын

I initially got it as a project, I also had some parts for a Gresley coach I'd been asked to manufacture which had multiple curves (the originals had been brass pressings). It was actually simpler to write the code, check the first part and then just repeat 24 times...... I've also used it for cutting tapers on things like an INT30 adaptor and morse taper arbors. Yes, I could do it on the manual lathe, and on another lathe (an Atlas) i've had, I made a taper turning attachment which made it easy. Just having it sitting there, I thought, well, why not........ I do like a challenge and I need to keep up to date with Cad etc, so it sort of made sense.

@guitarchitectural

6 ай бұрын

Well gee, if you've never seen a use for it then I guess it's no good for anyone right?

@Impuritan1

6 ай бұрын

@@guitarchitecturalsomeone call up all CNC companies that make home shop machines and tell them to knock it off. Union sees no use for one so quit making them.

@guitarchitectural

6 ай бұрын

@@Impuritan1 call the local TV station! "Grumpy Old man decries technology, news at 11!" 😆😆

@camillosteuss

6 ай бұрын

I disagree... I started as an enthusiast when i was 12 essentially, having first laid eyes on a lathe online, over 15 years ago... I never hoped to have a single machine, but i studied and studied with fanatical devotion everything that one could find about machines, machining and most fields related... 5 years ago, or a bit longer, i got my first machine, and now i have 15 machines and need a new shop, as i sardine canned my shop with massive machines due to acts of God... I thought that i would never even consider a cnc machine, who needs that, that`s a production machine for large scale productions... Now, having had developed a teacher`s level of theory knowledge and some skill in practice, i am starting to see the immense value in CNC... Now, what is my home shop is by far much more than most model home shop machine-rooms are, and sure, my interests and projects may differ, but having say a cnc lathe allows you to program in a part of disgusting complexity, and have the machine make a part that you otherwise could make, but would take hell of a lot of time to do, or you wouldn`t even be able to make it... A cnc mill is also a machine that can make parts that a manual machine can not really... Don`t get me wrong, out of 15 machines, 13 are manual and will remain so, but 2 are automatic lathes that i plan on converting to cnc... There is simply so much stuff that a cnc machine can do for you if you take care of her properly, that it`s hard not to appreciate them and their immense capacity to perform certain types of work... I never plan on turning my shop into a large production shop, i will make precision parts and sell some occasionally to make up for the costs of running those machines and keeping them well maintained, but it will be a home shop nonetheless, maybe on a larger scale, but if you have ridiculous ideas and projects, a cnc machine can offer a great deal and be as valuable as a manual machine when it comes to parts making... Only in industry do they really outshine the manuals due to their ability to spit out parts in ridiculous amounts, but in the home shop, they are merely a counterpart to manual machines... I mean, at around 13:50 to 14:00, you get the same thing explained with a short example... It`s the adaptability of a numeric pathing that allows you to produce very complex parts that would require dedicated setups of tooling and ancillaries like the compound, which cnc just bypasses with inhuman ability to generate any pathing of the appropriate tooling, just by moving more than one axis with near perfect accuracy... All the best and kind regards! Steuss