Here's a thing I never would've thought of. Tormach has slightly modified a bog standard Chinese 7x12 lathe with a spindle clamp and indexing plate, then fitted it up with mounts to bolt to the table of their larger CNC mill. Put a stepper on the spindle and the lathe becomes a full 4th axis/indexer/dividing head with tailstock.
http://www.tormach.com/product_pcnc_lathe2.html Instead of moving the tool for CNC lathe work, this moves the entire lathe. Looks like a job for LinuxCNC. Put a 7x12 on a Bridgeport or a Unimat on a mini mill, or a 9" South Bend on a Warner & Swasey #4. Or a 17x78 LeBlond on a 20 foot Cincinnati planer with a rotary spindle retrofit... I happen to have a small antique indexer with tailstock on a common frame, don't need to align the two separately on the table. Probably ought to keep it and put a motor on it or something... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
