--- On Tue, 5/28/13, John Alexander Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been playing around with my little Unimat CNC lathe,
> now that I have
> the stepper motors working properly.... (issue with me, not
> the technology)
> 
> You can see its first moves if you look at
> 
> http://youtu.be/PXypuMmQFEI
> 
> Took it apart last night for final assembly; looking forward
> to seeing what
> it can do, then going on to my EMCO Compact-8 CNC
> conversion.

That's one big benefit to a lathe using precision round bars for the bed and 
slides, easy rebuilding, especially if the carriage and slides use replaceable 
bushings or can be bored out for bushings.

To wear the rails on a Unimat must have taken a huge amount of use!

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