Yes and no. I have a full set of lay shaft gears which is all I need at home. I also have the both the milling attachments, 2 x 3 jaw chucks, 4 jaw chuck, fixed and traveling stedies, face plate, driving plates and some gear cutting tools.
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Yes and no. I have a full set of lay shaft gears which is all I need at home. I also have the both the milling attachments, 2 x 3 jaw chucks, 4 jaw chuck, fixed and traveling stedies, face plate, driving plates and some gear cutting tools.
Just another leather clad Tinkerbell.
The Wanker on the Fucking Harley is going for a ride!
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There is a great range of insert turning tools on Aliexpress
at dam cheap prises...
Not tryed the inserts... the tool holders are more than ok...
Pete
90% of all Harleys built are still on the road... The other 10% made it back home...
Ducati... Makeing riders into mechaincs since 1964...
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No. They arent.Originally Posted by pete-blen
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I grabbed one of those sets (not from alixpress though), mostly alright, parting style one was shit though. Might be that the inserts are size compatible with name brands too. I've since added more pricey stuff for parting tool, boring bar, and internal threading. I reckon it's a good starting point for hobbyists, but be prepared to upgrade a few. I've got a dead live steady, and some slightly off center collets from similar suppliers...
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Bogeyman
Please to describe it.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
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Oops, I meant dead live center. It used to spin and now it don't.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Bogeyman
I've heard "live centre" used to describe a rotating centre a fair bit lately. When I were a nippera live centre was one in the headstock.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
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if you havent found anything. this one's a bitta aright
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=789695499
Moped rider
The Lathe;
300 X 900 GearHead Lathe with a 38mm Bore, Power CrossFeed & Carriage, 2 Axis DRO, Indexable Tooling etc
The Mill;
Sieg SX3, 3 Axis CNC, (still working on a 4th Rotary Axis), ER32 Collet Chuck etc.
The Software;
Autodesk Inventor 3d Parametric, Aspire V4.5 3D.
Anyone wanting a bit of Design, Fabrication or Machining work done in the Wellington Area just Email me.
imagineeringnz (at) gmail.com
Murray McK.
Hardsnore Biker
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Hardsnore Biker
Thanks, I've been watching that one. It's in a fine location too!
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Cor, I'd love that old Myford.
My ML7 is fine but that old one is lathe porn. Show us your flat bed.
Just another leather clad Tinkerbell.
The Wanker on the Fucking Harley is going for a ride!
KB's Chief Cats
damn. I had plans for a silencer somewhere.
Be interested to see how well you turn out parts...
Kiwi gone Walkabout
Its probably still dodgy for a boilermaker to have a lathe but they are handy.
The Rong Fu mill/drill and 3 in 1 mill lathe from page 3 are still in storage in NZ (7 years this month) then I got another 3 in 1 when I was in Darwin (left nearly 4 years ago) which was left at my brothers workshop.
I got another Chinese lathe the other month, AL320G.
https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/Centre-Lathes
Fine for the money and powered cross feed along with reversible travel.
Getting used to it with so many years out of practice, its no Mercedes Benz but you get what you pay for.
First job was converting a Kubota alternator for the Sunbeam which got a M78 - 1 mm pitch left hand thread.
I ripped into it and noticed to late that setting it for a 1.25 mm pitch actually cuts a 1mm pitch.
http://s30.photobucket.com/user/manu...?sort=3&page=1
Next will be a HM-46 mill/drill.
https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/Tu...lling-Machines
I'm not sure in the big scheme of things cheap everything and quality to match is a good thing but does make these sort of things more accessible compared to 20 or so years ago.
A medium size knee mill with CNC conversion is still on the list, one day.....
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Might be something dicky with the change gears? 32 driven instead of 40 sort of thing? My lathe from them had something along those lines that needed changing.
But yeh, their stuff is decent quality for the price and makes things so much more accessible.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
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