Boring is really boring

[HandyAndy]

what you are doing is "skilled" work, nice one

& i moan about painting??????

andy

[AshG]

sean what lathe is it. i prob have plans to make it cnc if you are any good with electronics?

[londonsean69]

Ash - it's an Axminster C1, not the micro micro lathe

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-A...-Mk2-33289.htm

I'm OKish with electronics, but I wouldn't consider converting this one. After the project, I will see how often I use it, and might upgrade to a 9"x20". Now that I would consider CNC for

Cheers

Sean

[davidimurray]

As a slight aside - I've got a couple of old Denford Starturn CNC lathes kicking round the garage that I keep meaning on selling. I converted one for myself a few years ago to a modern PC controller and it is the one of the best things I ever did. I won't clog up the forum with the details but if anyone is interested in the lathes drop me a PM

Cheers

Dave

[AshG]

geez sean i thought my 14inch bed c2 was a bit small but that thing is tiny. bet you staled it a few times with the 19mm drill bit

hats off to you for managing it. do you have any pictures of the finished item?

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by AshG

geez sean i thought my 14inch bed c2 was a bit small but that thing is tiny. bet you staled it a few times with the 19mm drill bit

hats off to you for managing it. do you have any pictures of the finished item?

I actually started the hole in the drill press, as centrally locating it isn't important to the finished hole.

As for pictures, I'm afraid not. It has just this very minute stopped working No idea why. It has power (green LED is on) but nothing happens. When I put it in an 'at fault' situation (turning main power on when lathe is switched to run) I DO NOT get a fault light.

It has me stumped.

I thought maybe I had burned the motor out, but I can't smell any burning from the motor compartment.

It literally stopped, halfway through a cut. I'm leaving it for a while just in case it was overheating, but I would expect the fault light to come on if it was.

Ho hum, I might soon be in the market for a beefier lathe (every cloud and that)

Sean

[AshG]

have you checked the chuck guard switch they can fail. to be honest it will be a doddle to fix what ever it is as there is virtually nothing to them.

im not sure if the c1 has a thermal cutout but it could be a posability