C-Axis for lathe (construction in progress)

[suntravel]

On the way to a 4-axis lathe

Uwe

[suntravel]

Today the clutch for the C-Axis arrived, and I finished the 4th axis....

Maybe tomorrow it will make cool moves all together

Uwe

[suntravel]

4th axis under CNC control now.

After work today I will install the clutch for the C-axis...

Uwe

[suntravel]

Now the clutch ist installed, and it works

Maybe the first Acorn 4 Axis Lathe



Uwe

[Black Forest]

Very impressive. I think the amount of alu you have used on your project costs more than the lathe did originally! Very interesting all what you have built on your lathe and mill. Also how fast you seem to get things done. You are a speed racer and I am a turtle.

[suntravel]

Very impressive. I think the amount of alu you have used on your project costs more than the lathe did originally! Very interesting all what you have built on your lathe and mill. Also how fast you seem to get things done. You are a speed racer and I am a turtle.

Thanks

I was a road racer with US V8 and later with two wheeled rice cookers. Nuerburgring was my second home

And this broke me almost every bone over the time, because second place is first looser

Uwe

[Black Forest]

Very impressive. I think the amount of alu you have used on your project costs more than the lathe did originally! Very interesting all what you have built on your lathe and mill. Also how fast you seem to get things done. You are a speed racer and I am a turtle.

Thanks

I was a road racer with US V8 and later with two wheeled rice cookers. Nuerburgring was my second home

And this broke me almost every bone over the time, because second place is first looser

Uwe

One of my closest friends is the announcer at Nuerburgring. Klaus Lambert is his name.

[suntravel]

For me now this thing is finished, at least for what I can do myself with current Acorn 4.80 ...

Lathe looks like before with housings attached, but its now a full 4 axis CNC lathe.

What I have build is a bolt on C-Axis for Hobby lathes and bolt on 4th axis for milling on a lathe.

C-axis is with a clutch engaged, PLC is edited for safety functions, ( no spindle start possible with clutch engaged ) M52 macro for C axis on, M53 macro for C-axis off, M57 macro for setting C 0 according to the Z pulse from spindle encoder (if you have to find the C-position a second time in a program)

Next thing is to start an new thread with documentation and files how anyone can do this, and of course make cool things with a 4 axis lathe

Uwe

[cnckeith]

Right on! Super cool that you're posting all this good information for other users to benefit from.

[vanadium.f]

Hi Uwe
what you did is spectacular
congratulations
Fabrizio