On Friday 08 March 2013 01:12:33 Eric Keller did opine: > A typical cnc lathe is limited to round things, so obviously less > generally useful than a CNC, but it's still pretty useful. The cnc in > our shop at work is always going with on-off projects. Today it was > making a test section for some sort of thermodynamics experiment. They > had it boring a 6" diameter chunk of stainless with a 2" hole. Not > exactly a fun job to do by hand, and there is a lot to be said for > setting up something like that and letting it go. > Eric
Not only that, but if the lathe isn't dead true, linuxcnc can make it dead true without calling in the factory folks to scrape ways until it is. That right there might cost several thousand. Very tightly controlled tapers are just the math to cut the taper and go. Need a rounded corner? g2/g3 works as well on the lathe as it does on the mill. > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a disagreement with my employee today. I said that a retrofitted > > CNC milling machine, like my Bridgeport Interact, is supremely useful > > as a shop tool, but a CNC lathe has very little usefulness. I felt > > that there is not really much that one can do with a CNC lathe. He > > disagreed, but could not offer specifics. > > > > I want to see what you think, is a CNC lathe all that useful for > > someone who is nota job shop or a manufacturing operation. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday. I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
