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Hi lot of smaller lathes just don't have rome to foot scales on top slides even bigger lathes i have used ( one that would swing 2meters on the face plate )would be difficult to fit and manage the wiring to servive for long in amongst swarf . tail stock scale could be useful but dials and scale are usually sufficient .whith CNC machines then digital readout for positions are there . even fitting the x and y to standard machines restrict the amount of travel on lots of machines .It would be good if machine biulders designed and built machines to incorporate the scales internally inside the slides now that DRO are more standard and price is more affordable. John
Nope no axes on a lathe just 2 commonly used axis. Sorry but someone had to do it.
But...I'm still a newbie!
Quote from: zeeprogrammer on March 17, 2021, 01:50:15 PMBut...I'm still a newbie!I'm an eternal newbie. And quite happy about it.Zee, weren't you going all CNC? Or are you looking to add a machine. I may have missed something there. Easily done when life and work distract me from my fun for months at a time.
Quote from: propforward on March 17, 2021, 05:51:48 PMQuote from: zeeprogrammer on March 17, 2021, 01:50:15 PMBut...I'm still a newbie!I'm an eternal newbie. And quite happy about it.Zee, weren't you going all CNC? Or are you looking to add a machine. I may have missed something there. Easily done when life and work distract me from my fun for months at a time. I don't mean to hijack the thread. I had gotten Sherlines and converted the lathe to CNC. I'm still in process of converting the mill to CNC.I have a PM1030V and PM25MV and intend to sell them off. Too big for me.I intend to get back to a mini-lathe and mini-mill and am considering the LMS 7350 or 5100 lathe and LMS 4190 mill.But it will be a few months before I can do anything (wife's illness, pandemic, and still too cold for me).
Too cold to drag them out to garage and load them into whatever comes along.