Boring is really boring

[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

[londonsean69]

I never had the chuck guard fitted

I would imagine that if it had died, it would introduce a fault to the system, but I will have to strip it down totally and find out.

It is less than a year old, so I have emailed Axminster to see what they have to say about it.

As for thermal cutout, I left it for 2 hrs then went and tried again - nothing.

Ho hum, I guess the inserts will have to wait. Shame, I had just got the hang of the lathe.

Sean

[RAYLEE29]

Hi, just a thought.
you dont need a 4jaw chuck to offset bore on the lathe.
I have one but didnt use it to make my offset mushrooms.
All you need to do is put some packing between one of the jaws and the work piece and its offset
i think the packer i used was 6mm you can true up the job using packing between the job and the chuck check in three places and it will be true.
remove the packing between the chuck and job before you run the lathe.
you can check the offset with a clock or a pointer set at the largest offset then rotate 180 degrees and measure the difference.
obviously make sure you are happy that the job is secure before running the lathe.
also you can use your lathe to do the fishmouts on the wishbone tubes but thats a different story
hope you find this usefull
Ray

[RAYLEE29]

just seen the size of your lathe it might be a bit small for the offset thing above my chuck is a 5 inch one may still be possible but be carefull
Ray

[londonsean69]

Ray, I bought a couple of little books when I got the lathe, and they show this technique.

It's what I was planning to investigate. I had even got an off-cut of the 2" bar I am using ready and waiting to setup to determine the correct spacer size.

Shame the bloody thing has decided to play up, I was quite getting into using it. Might have to buy a mill next as well

Sean

Originally Posted by RAYLEE29

just seen the size of your lathe it might be a bit small for the offset thing above my chuck is a 5 inch one may still be possible but be carefull
Ray

Tiny - isn't it