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Taig Micro Lathe II cu modificări
Această întreagă tangență achiziționarea unui strung mic a început atunci când am avut
nevoie de un mic manșon cu filet interior cu diametrul de 1/8 "pentru tensionarea unui cablu Categorii
subțire de aeronavă. Cablul de aeronavă ar avea un mic guler de alamă încastrat și argintul
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va fi lipit la capăt, iar manșonul se va roti liber pe cablu, în timp ce acesta va fi filetat pe o Astronomie
tijă de 440, tensionând astfel cablul. Problema nu era că nu puteam să mănânc părțile mici Automata si arta cinetica
de pe strungul meu Logan / Wards 10 ", dar că strungul nu putea atinge cu adevărat viteza Aviație
axului necesar pentru a face o treabă bună pe piesele cu diametru mic. CoinOp mașini
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De câteva luni am căutat un strung mai mic ceva din soiul Sherline care ar fi mai Electronică
confortabil să lucrezi cu viteze mai mari ale axului. Știam puțin despre strungul Taig, dar din Home Theater
motive greșite, nu am luat în considerare serios decât până la sfârșitul procesului. Mai Filme
devreme am început să mă uit și la strunguri Unimat de epocă pe eBay. Un Unimat nu ar fi Ciudat, ciudat, & curios
cea mai practică alegere, dar am fost fascinat de ele încă din anii '60, când anunțurile lor restaurări
puteau fi văzute peste tot în reviste și cataloage de pasionați. Sculptura, Matrite, & turnare
Instrumente și utilaje
Deși îmi place și strungurile vechi bijutier / ceasornicărie Boley, Levin, Derbyshire etc. am Echipament video, Videografie
vrut cu adevărat ceva ușor să ieșim și să cumpăr și să obținem unelte, așa că mam limitat Epocă
să mă uit la următoarele tipuri:
Unimat strung
Acestea sunt pe scară largă disponibile pe eBay, iar accesibilitatea la părți nu ar fi
probabil o problemă. Se pare că sunt puțin flexibile sub sarcină, cu doar două tije de
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oțel pentru un pat. Iar motoarele universale, deși probabil adecvate datorită limitărilor
Eclipsa lunară septembrie
structurale ale strungului, nu sunt potrivite pentru cuplul la turații reduse. Ar fi o mare
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colecție, în special cu toate accesoriile, dar mie teamă că o voi restabili și o voi pune
Misterul Luminii Paulind
înapoi în carcasă pentru ao afișa și a nul utiliza. Încă mai pot ajunge să fac asta.
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Stivuitorul Sherline
Am fost gata și am vrut să văd un strung Sherlin și o selecție de mandrine și accesorii,
pe baza experiențelor bune pe care leam folosit la începutul anilor '80 pe care leam
cumpărat pentru laboratorul de inginerie unde am lucrat. Prețul pare a fi destul de
ridicat pentru accesoriile din aluminiu anodizat, în comparație cu ceea ce puteți obține
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în accesorii din fontă / oțel pentru strunguri mai mari, dar aceasta este o comparație
nedreaptă. Accesoriile Sherline și strungurile în sine sunt foarte bine realizate și sunt
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problemă, a început, pentru că a venit în două lungimi diferite de pat. Iar procesul de
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meu de luare a deciziilor.
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Modelul de 8.5 "era întradevăr tot ceea ce era necesar, pentru că am un strung mai
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mare. Dar după ce am adăugat costul a tot ceea ce miam dat seama că ar fi un pic
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mai mult pentru Sherline de 17 de paturi. De ce nu te duci? Așteaptă un minut
Decembrie 2013 (6)
Sherline nu are o alimentare rapidă pentru călătorie pentru a se deplasa în sus și în jos
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a călători de la capăt la capăt. Așa că gândirea mea sa întors la modelul de 8.5 "
ocupă mai puțin spațiu și este întradevăr tot ce am nevoie. Dar, după adăugarea în Blog
costul tuturor uneltelor pentru strungul de 8,5 ", saltul la patul de 17" este Articole
nesemnificativ, un procent mic din costul total. Și totuși acum mă apropii de un preț Vizitați KILROYS din Minneapolis
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It wasn’t until I ran across this site that I looked at the Taig in a different light. At the Inapoi sus
link you will find the astounding machine work (and the photographic skills to show it
off) of John R. Bentley. Although I knew I wasn’t looking at a stock Taig, it helped me
see the possibilities. His modifications and accessories had turned it into something
that was more of what I wanted, and in the end I based many of my modifications
directly on his ideas.
The Taig won out, not simply because of the lower kit and accessory cost, but more
importantly because of the way that it is designed to be accessorized. The aluminum
extrusions used for the headstock, tailstock, and under the bed may at first give the
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appearance of a simplistic design, but nearly every square inch of the lathe has
acme semaphore amscope animated
dovetails or Tslots that can be used for accessory attach points. This had never been
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obvious to me until I studied the designs of some other Taig owners, both at the above
site and at Nick Carter’s Taig Lathe Pages. automata
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Consider this as well: the kit price for the lathe bed, headstock spindle, and the camcorder carvable wax casting
carriage/crosslide is currently a little under $170. Now that is only the beginning
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toward building the basic lathe, but with prices like that you can begin to imagine using
the assemblies or individual parts for other tooling accessories or dedicated, single collectibles diy EAA edge lighting
purpose machines. A $70 headstock could be used for a tool post grinder or some other electronics Experimental gameroom
machining accessory mounted on the compound of a larger lathe. A headstock and bed Gary Overman homebuilt aircraft
could be mounted vertically and turned into a sensitive drill. I have seen a Taig lathe junod lathe machine tools mantiques
adapted with a long bed for use in turning pool cues, and two lathes aligned end to metalcasting moldmaking
end, their spindles driven in sync, for use as a glassblowing lathe. I’m toying with the Pitts Special pouchkine
idea of using a Taig headstock with index wheel as a lightduty index head that doesn’t resistance soldering restoration
require removing the vise. Machine an aluminum block to look like a short section of sculpting sculpture Slot machine
the lathe bed, clamp this in the milling machine vise, and slip on the headstock/index. steadicam taig taig strung
Alternating between indexing and vise operations would be simple. transformatoare verticale automate
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Although Taig does not offer the wide range of tooling and accessories that Sherline epocă WillowProducts
has, what they do sell is very attractively priced and it looks like you could buy one (or
several) of every accessory that they offer for considerably less than the equivalent
items from Sherline. There are opinions out there that would seem to indicate that
Sherline quality is consistently very high, and this may command a higher price. All I
can say for certain at this point is that what I have seen of all the Taig accessories thus
far would indicate that they appear well made and are entirely serviceable for their
intended purpose.
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The Basic Kit and Assembly
I won’t spend much any time on the basics of the lathe assembly, since that is well
documented elsewhere. Most of what you see here will be pictures and descriptions of some
modifications, and information on some issues and pitfalls that I encountered along the way.
As you may have guessed from the title of this section, I bought the K1019 basic kit rather
than the factory assembled version. At the same time I bought a tailstock assembly, a 3jaw
chuck, a steel Tslot faceplate, a tool holder, and an extra spindle to use as a diameter
gauge, since I would be machining the pulleys myself. These items were ordered through
Nick Carter, and subsequent orders were placed through him as well. He offers an additional
10% discount on most items, and he was very helpful with prepurchase questions.
The Good…
Generally the quality of the items was better than expected, and you can’t help but be
impressed at what you get for the price. The lathe bed is quite massive for its size, and
from a functional aspect the fit and finish of the key components appeared to be very
good. Also, for a manual lathe I personally prefer the Taig’s rack and pinion for carriage
motion as opposed to the lead screw that the Sherline uses. If I wanted to equip a
lathe for CNC , that might be a different matter, but I have no need for that. Adding a
lead screw to the Taig was a bit of work but in the end it has the advantages of both
types of drives; the speed of a crank and the precision of a .050″/revolution lead
screw.
The accessories and tooling are much better than I expected, too. Taig sells nice little
3 and 4jaw selfcentering chucks with replaceable aluminum jaw inserts, and a 4jaw
independent chuck with steel jaws. I was a little put off by the bulky look of the
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replaceablejaw chucks in the
beginning before I realized just how
useful machinable jaws can be when
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the Taig is perhaps not as
elegant as the motor/controller
combo that Sherline offers, it is
relatively inexpensive even if
purchased new, and more than
likely can be found for next to Treadmill Motor Similar to the One Used
nothing. Here
Free treadmills are a good
source of motors and
controllers, but adapting a motor will generally require the ability to bore a pulley to fit
the oddsize shaft. The bottom line is that some time needs to be spent assembling a
suitable drive. Depending on how you value your time, the Taig may or may not have
any real cost advantage, at least for the basic lathe itself.
Really the only bad thing I have to say about the Taig I saved for the next category:
The Ugly…
Cosmetically, there were some components that were disappointing. Don’t get me
wrongthese issues don’t affect the performance, but they do affect the beauty, if that
matters to you (and yes, beauty is important). The thing that bothered me the most
was the finish work on the carriage extrusion. The extrusion design is really clever, and
the critical surfaces were machined and finished very well, but the deburring of all
edges prior to anodizing was, to be kind, rough at best.
My carriage as received looked like it had been attacked with an overzealous angle
grinder, with corners ground off and edges ground unevenly. In a way I was expecting
this, because I saw evidence of the same thing in John Bentley’s photos, and there is
no way that he would miss this sort of detail if there was anything that he could do
about it. Oddly enough, this is the type of part that on larger lathes (along with most
major components) is usually based on a sand casting with sometimes roughly hand
finished edges; that never bothers me. I think it was just that when you see something
that looks like it was entirely machined out of bar stock or precise extrusions, hand
ground edges and corners really look out of place.
In the end I made a wood mounting fixture for the carriage and mitered the edges the
best I could on the milling machine. I couldn’t erase the deepest gouges, but I was a
whole lot happier with the result.
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Minimizing vibration at any spindle speed was of utmost importance, and the motor choice, credite
and how it is mounted, can make a huge difference. For reasons that I question now, I a lua legatura
ended up using a 3/16″ wide belt instead of the recommended 1/8″ belt, and this too will Inapoi sus
affect vibration.
Some, but not all sources of vibration may be obvious:
Motor vibration – you can’t achieve lower overall lathe vibration than the standalone
motor produces. Most induction and treadmill motors have low vibration unless dirty
or worn out.
Pulley balance and concentricity – stock Taig pulleys are very precise, but you need
to have a good fit on the motor shaft too. If the motor shaft is a little undersized, the
set screws can push the motor pulley a little offcenter. And of course if you end up
using a treadmill motor you will more than likely need to bore one of the pulleys out
to the treadmill shaft size (using the other lathe that you already have, hopefully).
This needs to be done very carefully.
Belt and pulley groove variations – this turned out to be my worst problem, and the
reason the recommended 1/8″ belt really may be a better choice than the 3/16″.
In tracking down vibration sources, I started to understand the inherent advantage of using
a motor that is small enough to mount directly to the headstock, as Sherline (and John
Bentley) does. Belttopulley variations tend to cause the motor to try to pull toward the
headstock at cyclic frequencies. For example, imagine that a slightly thicker section of a belt
rides in a varying width pulley groove. Compound that with a little lessthanperfect pulley
concentricity, and you end up with vibration frequencies that are all over the spectrum.
Having the motor and belt tensioner mounted directly on the headstock rigidly spaces the
motor and spindle pulleys and makes it easy to force the belt to absorb these vibrations by
stretching.
Unfortunately, mounting the motor
and lathe separately on a board
creates an easy opportunity for the
vibrations induced by the belts and
pulleys to get out of hand. Base and
motor mount rigidity is important,
and be aware that in some
circumstances using a resilient
mount for the motor may actually
aggravate overall vibration. Typical
base materials like plywood or
particle board should be considered
to be flexible from a vibration Roughing Out the Headstock Pulley
standpoint. Slabs of aluminum,
hardwood, or concrete bases are
going to help, but you still need to
watch for flexibility at the motor and lathe attach points. Fortunately, a brace can be made
that also functions as a belt tensioner and can help approach a more ideal situation.
Because of the speed range of the DC motor and the decision to use a 3/16″ belt, I wanted
to make custom pulleys for the motor and spindle. And although I was intending to aim for a
tight, shrink fit for the spindle pulley bore, it ended up more like a snug fit initially. After a
few trial assemblies it became an easy sliding fit – not what I wanted. Tightening the
pulley’s set screw introduced a nearly imperceptible wobble, but enough to result in a little
vibration at some speeds. Rather than start over and make a new pulley, I thought I would
try rebushing it. Somewhere in the process I decided to bore a taper into the pulley and
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make a split brass bushing with a
matching taper on the outside – sort
of like a collet.
Fortunately, mounting some sort of
rigid member between the motor
and the headstock can greatly
reduce the pulley/belt induced
vibrations. It also serves as a
convenient location to put a belt
tensioner to keep that 1/8″ belt
tightened up to a middle C note, or
something like that.
I searched for a long time but could
not find an acceptable high voltage
A Nearly Ideal Location For a Belt Tensioner DC motor that would fit on the
headstock (short of buying a
Sherline motor & control, which just
seemed wrong at this point). And
since I wanted continuous speed control, a treadmill motor seemed to be my only real
option. It seemed huge for this size lathe, but with some creative mounting it worked out
fine, and torque is NOT a problem.
The diecast end flange of the motor was turned down to match the motor can diameter,
and the bulk of the motor mount that is commonly spotwelded to the motor case was cut
down to the bare minimum needed to created a pivot mount. To provide attach points for
the motor to the base, a 5/16″ thick aluminum plate was mounted in the wood base and to
the lathe base itself. An aluminum ring was machined to fit around the motor’s bearing
flange to accommodate an attach point for one end of the knurled belt tensioner assembly.
Finally, a bracket was machined to fit on a little section of Tslot in the back of the
headstock and provide a close, but not perfect attach point for the top end of the tensioner.
Belt Tensioner – Motor End
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The Belt Tensioner in Context
Headstock End of the Tensioner
The Base
The #1 priority: the whole lathe and drive needed to be portable and selfcontained. The
second #1 priority was that the base had to be designed to minimize vibration. These two
priorities were working against each other; a massive base was preferred to minimize
vibration, and for a while I considered making either a cast concrete slab or a welded tubing
structure filled with concrete. Ultimately, I couldn’t really grasp how things were going to fit,
and wood was easier to modify on the fly than either of the other materials.
The #2 priority was to make the
motor and electronics behind the
lathe as protected and low profile as
possible. The Taig lathe bed,
headstock, and carriage/crossslide
are all loaded with dovetails and T
slots, and I envisioned all sorts of
polished and anodized tooling and
accessories hanging from my new
Swiss army lathe. The only way that
the huge treadmill motor was going
to work was if the lathe was elevated
on a thicker base (which also helps A Powerful DC Treadmill Motor & Controller
working height) and the motor was are Housed Under that Cover
semiburied in the base itself. That’s
what I ended up doing, and I like the
result.
Several more components ended up partially or fully submerged in the wood base. Aside
from the motor, these components had to fit in:
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An MC40 variable speed controller – this is for the treadmill motor
A motor choke (necessary for hum suppression because this is a 60Hz motor drive)
A 24VAC transformer and rectifier circuit for the feed motor and speed control
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tree!) the main section was made of Inapoi sus
two slabs of particle board glued to
give a 1 1/2″ thickness. Fortunately I remembered to route in some hidden wiring channels
before gluing the boards together, so I didn’t have to route into the base later.
After all of the cutouts were routed
and checked for fit, the edges of the
particle board were laminated with
1″ maple. Both the top and bottom
of the board were then covered with
high pressure laminate, and the
edges and cavities finish routed.
A lastminute surprise base
modification became necessary when
I tested the actual Faulhaber mini
motor used for the feed drive. The
speed controls that I had bought Motor Electronics – Front View
through eBay had benchtested fine
with just about every motor I had,
except they could not go to zero
speed with the Faulhaber. I determined that the motor ran on so little current that the
controller needed an additional load in parallel to function correctly. One resistor would have
worked, but I used what I had, so out came the router again to make some room.
Detail of CutDown Motor Mount
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Adding a Lead Screw and Power Feed
Taig now offers a lathe equipped with a power feed, but it was a little different from what I
needed. I wanted a design that used the more conventional halfnut to engage/disengage
with the screw. The lead screw also needed to disengage from whatever gear chain or motor
that would be driving it. This would allow the lead screw to be hand cranked from the
tailstock end, allowing more precise lateral movements than the carriage wheel alone could
manage. In short, I needed what John Bentley had already designed.
A few things were done differently:
The new Taig carriages are made from a solid extrusion rather than a casting: the
casting had a hollow cavity in the location where he had installed some of the half
nut mechanics, but that was now solid metal.
A 1/4″ lefthand threaded rod was used for the lead screw to make the carriage
movement more intuitive and to give a .050″ per revolution feed rate
The 1/4″ lead screw would need to be backed up by a plate or a guide; under load
the small diameter of the threaded rod would probably flex and skip out of the half
nut.
Lateral play between the engaged lead screw and the carriage had to be minimized
and easy to control
Lateral play between the lead screw and the mounts to the lathe bed had to be
minimized as well. To this end, I used ball bearings rather than sleeve bearings at
both ends. This also eliminated the problem I have of making precision holes that you
could pass off as a bearing. I’m not a reamer sort of guy, and any holes I make, no
matter how hard I try, are either too small or too big.
I should mention that this halfnut system really uses only a single halfnut, not two half
nuts that close and hold captive the lead screw. Otherwise, the mechanics are simple. The
brass lever that fills the apron slot is free to pivot on the right end. The left end has a short
threaded halfnut that is, when not engaged, held clear of the lead screw by a flat steel
spring. To engage the drive, the feed knob (actually the short lever on the front of the
apron) is flipped clockwise, to the left. This pushes a pin through the apron, which then
pushes the halfnut into the turning lead screw.
Here is a short demonstration of the completed power feed:
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Clutch Mechanism For Engaging Power Feed
A Modified Cross Slide Dial Allows Manual
Feed When Power Drive is Disengaged
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The carriage that I received with the kit was, as I said earlier, based on a custom aluminum
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This slot is used to guide a 1/8″
thick brass lever that pivots at the
right end and has a brass halfnut
soldered to the left end. A hole for a
pivot pin was drilled from the bottom
of the carriage and then tapped
deeply enough to take a 1/4″ long
set screw. Care was taken to make
sure that the hole did not conflict
with the existing tapped hole than
holds the set screw used to lock the
eccentric sleeve for the carriage
Rear View of Cross Slide Apron Showing hand wheel and pinion. A steel pin
Captive Pivot Pin – Note the Slot. How (slip fit for removal if necessary) is
Convenient! dropped in the hole and set screw
used to lock it in tight.
While the carriage was off the lathe,
a 5/32″ hole ( because I used a
brass sleeve for a 1/8″ pin) was also
drilled at the left end of the carriage
from the front of the apron, in line
with the magic slot and about 1/4″
deep into the slot. This acts as a
guide for a pin that would push a
lever in the slot toward the lead
screw rod. This hole was located at
the correct height to end up exactly
in line with the center of the slot,
which meant it had to be drilled from The Large Pin Pushes the Brass Nut Into the
a point that was not quite centered Lead Screw
in the bottom of the small dovetail
slot on the front of the carriage
extrusion.
Although I drilled more holes later after I had made the carriage halfnut lever and feed
knob, I’ll describe them now: Directly underneath the hole drilled for the sleeve and the pin
(that pushes the halfnut lever) there is also a 1032 tapped hole for a socket head screw
about which the feed knob rotates, and a tapped bottom hole that allows a set screw (with a
brass slug to prevent thread damage) to lock that 1032 screw. This allows the 1032 screw
to be easily adjustable from the front to set precisely how far the halfnut gets pushed into
the lead screw. Once the 1032 feed handle pivot screw is set, the bottom set screw locks it
in place. This provides a very simple method of adjusting for halfnut wear and for setting
the lead screw backlash to nearly zero.
The tapered slot in the end of the brass halfnut lever was an idea I had to eliminate any
lateral play that could occur from an oversize or worn hole in the lever at the pivot pin. The
pin size and the slot taper were matched so the taper straddles the pin around the middle,
without the pin being in danger of bottoming out in the slot. The halfnut lever is pulled back
to the disengaged position, and the tapered slot held tight to the pivot pin, by an “L” shaped
strip of spring steel screwed to the bottom of the apron. Very simple, very effective.
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Bottom of Carriage Apron – Feed Engaged
The Lead Screw Clutch
This is another Bentley design that was so nicely done that there seemed to be little need to
do anything except build it. Some changes did have to be made, primarily to accommodate
the different carriage design, to incorporate ball bearings (to handle the belt load of my
power feed drive), and to change the engagement dog design to something better suited to
my more limited machining skills.
The principle is simple. The drive shaft has a halfflat section on its end, as does the driven
shaft (lead screw). While the drive shaft flat is long, the driven lead screw flat is short, and
the ends are separated a short distance. A very short coupling section consisting of a shaft
with a long flat on one end and a short flat on the other resides in the gap and is free to
slide horizontally. Because of the long flats, the coupling shaft is always rotating along with
the drive shaft as long as the two stay engaged, and the coupling section movement is
constrained to always keep it engaged at the longflat ends. As soon as the coupling section
moves toward the lead screw, the short flats engage and the lead screw now begins to
rotate. The coupler shaft can be move left and right while rotating by means of a stationary
fork or pin running in a circumferential groove on the shaft itself. It’s very simple and
positive.
The flats can only engage when lined up correctly, once per revolution, so a slow rotation of
the drive shaft requires that you apply pressure to the coupler for some time until the flats
are lined up and the coupler slides into the locked position.
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In the photo above you can see that two ball bearings were used for the drive shaft and a
single ball bearing was used in one of the brass end blocks to support the left end of the
lead screw. Rather than have the very short coupler shaft (lower right in photo) slide in
metal, and since there was not much bearing surface, the shaft was pressed into the black
acetal sleeve that can be seen above it. The bore of the sleeve is tighter in the center to
hold the coupler shaft, and a little looser on the ends so that it is a sliding fit on the drive
and driven shafts. The brass block protrusion on the stainless plate (upper right of photo)
rests in the groove of the rotating acetal sleeve to move it left (disengaged) or right.
Nothing was terribly critical in the fabrication. For .187″ shaft diameters, a short flat length
of .190″ and a long flat length of about twice that or .380″ seemed to work out. The shafts
all needed to align, and it helped to bevel the ends of the flats so the engagement was not
so fussy. The housing block on the left was dovetailed on the back (bottom in the photo) to
slide into a dovetail channel in the front of the lathe bed. A single set screw pushes the
block tight into the dovetail. There are no holes drilled in the bed, and the whole assembly
can be removed in about a minute.
Lead Screw and Support Plate
The lead screw material is nothing fancy, just 1/4″20 LH threaded rod. All I needed was
about 12″ of good stock. Unfortunately out of the 12 feet of stock that I ordered from Enco I
got nothing usable. The quality of the pieces varied a lot, but it was all pretty bad, more
suitable for light duty rebar than anything else.
Some lengths of low carbon and 4140 rod were then ordered from McMaster, and they
looked much better. The low carbon stock had the best surface finish, and the best sections
were polished in my other lathe using a threaded metal lap. The ends were turned down to
fit the bearings on each end and the left end was machined with a flat to mate with the feed
clutch described above.
As mentioned earlier, the use of such
a small threaded rod required the
use of a backing plate on the bed of
the lathe to support the lead screw
against the halfnut when engaged.
A strip of acetal was machined to
slide into the dovetail channel on the
front of the lathe bed and at the
same time provide a cylindrical
groove for the lead screw to lie in.
The lead screw position was fixed
relative to the dovetail; nothing was
MDF Clamp for the Acetal Lead Screw adjustable, so the acetal strip had to
Support. The Clamp Never Left the Vise. be made accurately. An MDF
clamping block was made for the
milling machine so
that it could initially hold the raw plastic strip for facing, and as the plastic was machined
the MDF could be machined as needed to clamp the changing profile. All of the plastic
machining operations had to be completed without removing the clamping fixture from the
vise. It worked, and everything came out fine, but it really was more difficult than
necessary.
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same end result by drilling and
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assume that the aluminum extrusion
that forms the lower part of the lathe
bed is exactly parallel to the ground
steel bed. The extrusion selfaligns
in two grooves in the bottom of the Meniu principal
steel bed, but for whatever reason Closeup of Plastic Lead Screw Back Support
the clearance between the carriage Blog
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extrusion varied by about .014″ over Galerie
the length of travel. I fixed this with a light fly cut on the back of the acetal, but a simple Resurse
strip screwed to the front could be shimmed or shaved easily if you should encounter the Harta siteului
same problem. A quick test of parallelism running up and down the bed using a dial Atelierul
indicator on the carriage would have saved some trouble, but it was a problem that was not Siguranță
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installation of a chip cover over the lead screw extremely simple. The narrow gap between Inapoi sus
the top of the plastic and the underside of the extrusion feature that holds the rack gear was
perfect for retaining a thin aluminum strip bent into the form shown in the photo. You can’t
see it, but the back side of the aluminum strip has a 90 degree bend, forming a flange about
1/8″ wide. The upper rear edge of the plastic is relieved (a small rabbet cut) to make room
for the flange. The aluminum strip is installed by simply sliding it into place from the
tailstock end. You do have to remove the screws and drop the hand wheel on the end of the
lathe to allow clearance.
The Power Feed Drive Motor
For a while I debated whether or not I wanted to be able to cut threads on this lathe. I
didn’t want another changegear type of lead screw drive (my Logan has change gears).
I initially planned to use a Faulhaber gear motor that has an integral encoder wheel on the
motor shaft – prior to gear reduction – that would give considerably more position accuracy
than I would ever need for threading. A pair of optical sensors positioned correctly in
quadrature on the headstock could count the holes in the index wheel on the spindle pulley.
Along with a onceperrevolution index, the sensors signals could easily be processed by an
Arduino, or more likely a PIC microcontroller, to yield both direction and rotational position
information. This would be directly translatable into any thread pitch you want to dial in. A
stepper motor would be a little easier to use for the lead screw drive, but I wanted
something smaller to fit in the riser base, hence the plan to use the analog servo approach.
A chain or gear drive would couple the motor to the lead screw.
Big plans, and then reality. This entire microlathe project was already a tangent to what I
was trying to accomplish (what was the point, by the way?). Projects nested too many levels
deep are a constant problem, and I decided to go with a simple variable speed power drive.
If any time is going to be spent on a programmable threadcutting design, it will be for my
larger lathe.
I already had several gear motors that would work for the feed drive, and it was just a
matter of deciding on a pulley ratio that would give the right carriage speed at the motor’s
rated RPM. For a speed control, I found several different types on eBay that looked like they
would work, and for $8 to $10 I wasn’t even going to think about designing something. I
ordered a couple different types, and they both worked very well. They were very nicely
made, with high quality PC boards, and I picked one that seemed to provide a little bit of
torque feedback.
Earlier I had made a solid aluminum
riser for under the lathe’s mounting
base, but I decided that this would
be a good place to hide the motor,
so I started hogging out metal. After
a while it became apparent that this
was going the wrong way, so I built
a hollow riser from a strip of 1/8″
aluminum flat folded into a rectangle
and welded at the seam. This has
worked out well and provides space
for the wiring. Overall, I am very
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The feed motor is tied into the
spindle motor relay, so that the feed turns off with the spindle. I also put a headphone jack
on the motor cover for a connection that stops everything when shorted. The plan is to have
a moveable, dovetailmounted contact on the rear of the bed that can be set up as a stop.
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NOTE: This problem is only relevant with power feed.
Setting the rack and pinion gear clearance was not a difficult task, although I did find a need
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not sure why it comes with only one screw point – my rack had a slight upward bow to it,
enough to make the carriage hand crank tighten up a little at the right end. The problem Blog
with the carriage hand wheel became apparent when the carriage was pushed or pulled Articole
along the bed as a lead screw would – the hand wheel pinion would always find a spot to Galerie
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to be driven from the rack because of binding in the eccentric sleeve bearing. There was Siguranță
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on the pinion shaft when the carriage was pushed. I concentrated on trying different a lua legatura
lubricants for the bearing, to no avail. Once a rough spot was encountered, the side force on Inapoi sus
the pinion would jam it even more, and damage would occur if continued.
After trying some test parts it
seemed that a plastic bearing
surface would work better. In order
to keep the contact area (and the
friction) low, the original steel
eccentric bearing was mounted in a
4jaw chuck and the center bore was
dialed in. It was then bored out a
little oversize all the way through,
then the ends were bored 1/8″ deep
to the largest diameter possible
without excessively thinning the
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Acetal Inserts were machined to fit the bored ends
and provide a good bearing surface
for the hand wheel pinion gear shaft.
This apparently fixed the problem,
because the hand wheel would now spin freely when the carriage was pushed.
Bed Wipers
Wipers to prevent debris from
getting under the carriage and
tailstock were made from .020″ steel
strips with a 90 degree bend on one
edge to stiffen them. Thin leather
strips were cut to act as wipers. Two
080 button head screws hold each
of the four bed wipers in place. The
tailstock wipers were probably not
necessary, but they’re on there now.
Bed Wiper on Tailstock
Tailstock Lever Modification
Clearly this is another stolen design, but with the requisite changes made just to be different
and to change the geometry of motion.
The tailstock lever is probably one of the more commonly modded parts of the stock Taig
lathe. As supplied the lever is serviceable but leaves much room for improvement. The hand
lever and two formed pieces that comprise a pivot fork are fabricated from flat steel strips.
The lever is short, and even on a small lathes like this the force required for tailstock drilling
can require more hand pressure than is comfortable. Functionally, the short length of the
hand lever and pointed corners that poke the palm of your hand are the main shortcomings.
There is room for aesthetic improvement as well.
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The photos tell the story – all of the flat steel parts were replaced with 12L14 machined
parts, and it is somewhat nicer to use that it was originally. Note that to obtain a full range
of motion to the left, the lever does need to be thin enough to freely enter the slot in the
tailstock extrusion.
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milled to fit into the center channel,
and secured at the rear with a
recessed socket head screw. Now a
slightly longer socket head screw (or
lever as show above) clamps down
on the bar, which in turn presses
directly on the spindle, providing a
more positive lock without the risk of
bending anything.
Closeup of Pivot Fork
Etched Aluminum Control Panel
I wanted the motor controls to be
located clear of chips and where
there would be no need to reach
over a spinning chuck. Shortly
before I started working on the lathe
I had finished a couple projects that
had required photo etching both
copper and aluminum. I thought a
photo etched panel for the controls
would be nice because it is a
relatively easy way of creating sharp
text and graphics and the recessed
graphics are more durable than Etched Aluminum Control Panel
surface printing would be.
The .080″ thick aluminum was
formed first, punched, and then brush finished. The artwork was created using Photoshop
and a negative was printed on a transparency film. The photoresist sheet (I use PurEtch
photopolymer) was applied to the surface, dried, and exposed to UV through the negative
artwork. After developing, the plate was etched in the same ferric chloride etchant that is
used for copperclad printed circuit boards.
After the graphics were etched deep enough to hold paint, the panel was cleaned of all resist
film. A little black enamel was dabbled into the etched areas, and the excess paint was
squeegeed off using a business card. Areas away from the graphics that could be safely
wiped were cleaned with solvent. The paint in the etched recesses was allowed to dry
overnight.
Final cleanup was done using a thin, lintfree linen type of cloth. A small square of cloth was
spread flat on a nonabsorbent surface and wet with a couple squirts of lacquer thinner. The
panel was then rubbed around on the flat cloth until all of the paint film remaining on the
surface of the aluminum was cleaned off, leaving only the recessed painted graphics.
As a final step a couple very thin coats of clear acrylic were sprayed on the cleaned panel.
Final Thoughts
Looking back at the modifications that were made to the Taig, I have to remind myself that
most of these were enhancements that I wanted to make, and were not essential to the
functionality of the basic unit. This lathe will no doubt be an ongoing project, but even as it
stands it is a better choice for me than a Sherline or Unimat, both of which I would be less
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inclined to modify. The kit (or even the factorybuilt version) requires a little effort to get it
going, but it is a surprisingly solid and competent machine for its size, and I would make the
same choice again.
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