nice john it looks like one could build the whole lathe pretty easily
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:10 PM, John Alexander Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > Gregg; > > > > To wear the rails on a Unimat must have taken a huge amount of use! > > > > > Nah - the stepper motor brackets actually needed the beds to be extended in > order for them to fit. (the aluminium stepper motor brackets are actually > NOT fastened to the bed rails - they float as the couplings to the feed > screws are solid. > > The original bed ways were a bit old-age stained, but were ok - just too > short! They came out fairly easily after 60 odd years in place. > > I had 12mm ground "drill rod" here at home, but needed 8mm, which I picked > up a short length at the British Harrogate show early May for pounds 2.50, > which gave me more than enough for the cross slide ways. > > I don't think the lathe had much use, just decades and decades of sitting > around. > > JohnS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- We conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government." - U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, March 9, 2007 jeremy youngs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
