So I went ahead and made the classic blunder
No- not engaging in a land war in Asia
I’m talking about buying a combo lathe mill
Behold the Chinesium BT250F
It is essentially a PM1030V without a power feed or QCTP mashed with a grizzly G0758 without a fine feed. Perfectly usable and I can’t get enough time on it
I already added a stepper motor belt drive power feed to the carriage which has been awesome (I’ll make a post about that later) but I would also like to make the mill a little bit less of a pain in the butt. Obviously the setup when moving from milling to lathe and back is arduous, and adding a spindle to the lathe carriage would just be more setup, which is silly when I already have a mill on the lathe!
I saw an interesting Weiss machine (the MPV290F) that has a sliding milling head which looks like it can be used to execute rotary operations on indexed stock in the lathe chuck
Looks like this could be accomplished using linear rails and a ball screw attached to a plate under the mill head, with the main challenge being a level/massive surface for the rails to be mounted to.
Anyone ever attempted something like this?
No- not engaging in a land war in Asia
I’m talking about buying a combo lathe mill
Behold the Chinesium BT250F
It is essentially a PM1030V without a power feed or QCTP mashed with a grizzly G0758 without a fine feed. Perfectly usable and I can’t get enough time on it
I already added a stepper motor belt drive power feed to the carriage which has been awesome (I’ll make a post about that later) but I would also like to make the mill a little bit less of a pain in the butt. Obviously the setup when moving from milling to lathe and back is arduous, and adding a spindle to the lathe carriage would just be more setup, which is silly when I already have a mill on the lathe!
I saw an interesting Weiss machine (the MPV290F) that has a sliding milling head which looks like it can be used to execute rotary operations on indexed stock in the lathe chuck
Looks like this could be accomplished using linear rails and a ball screw attached to a plate under the mill head, with the main challenge being a level/massive surface for the rails to be mounted to.
Anyone ever attempted something like this?