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I played around with lots of control systems and have settled on running linuxCNC on a PC with ethernet Mesa cards. Parallel ports are slightly cheaper but run out of bandwidth for encoders. I have a

Hi Charlie Thanks for the photo update and your post. I have owned for over 16 years 2 of these type Weiss mills, may latest has a longer X table than my original purchase. With all the other

I'm not finished with my mill conversion yet although this week I was able to successfully power tap both 10-32 and 1/4-20. This included setting up the tool table for the center drill, the #7 drill

Hi Charlie, it has been quiet this past year. Besides motorizing my Z and X on my Craftsman 12x36 lathe I also bought the Eazy

Hello, All, I see from the lack of posts that we've all been busy with getting back to our lives as the COVID pandemic seems to gradually be coming under control. I must admit that it feels good to

Thanks John, I was going to add DRO to my lathe, Z and X. Now I will add the tailstock. Ralph

The solid tool post got me through for a while on parting I was recently reminded that loose spindle bearings are the hidden culprit in parting issues. A friend had unending problems getting decent

A very useful "digital tool" to add onto the quill of the lathe tailstock. readily available DRO as used on Weiss and Grizzly milling heads. and reasonably priced. Photo shows that I also added a

Leo Your confused direction of rotation issue is not a problem in your post to the forum. A bigger problem would be if you were to rotate the spindle in a clockwise direction with the tool at the

Hi John, Thanks for your reply, I have messed up the rotation direction. Best regards, Leo Kuipers. Sent: dinsdag 13 april 2021 05:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re:

Leo. Your replies are OK I agree with the need for an accurate parting tool height set up. Understand your rear tool post position preference, splash guard side of the spindle, but if the parting tool

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??? ??? there's a guy , I think WInky's workshop & he made some kind of base that he can put a support on that supports the tool to make it much more ridged ??? ??? animal

I have seen many many people reference either a rear-mounted cutoff tool, or flipping the cutoff tool upside down and running the lathe in reverse; since your lathe doesn’t run in reverse (iirc),

Thanks everyone for the replies, and yes Leo you are doing great. As I said I was able to part Delrin and aluminium, parting the aluminium looked like a YouTube video of how to part. It was perfect.

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Hi Ralph, I also did have many problems with parting on my ATLAS 10200 lathe, after repairing a warped cross slide guiding, replacing the plastic gibs by brass ones, it got the tool in a useful

You might want to tighten up the gibbs on the compound and cross-slide, and for the saddle. Or make a monolithic block like John L uses. Rigidity is the very first thing you want, and you want as much

I have smashed a couple of carbide parting tools, so I stick with HSS for the time being. Ralph

Parting off. These are a nice tool to use, 2 bites of the cherry carbide insert and double