wong fu mill
Or even Rong Fu
RF
its everything i found against building a milling machine
so found other ways around building one up looked at what i could do with what i had around
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/homemade-milling-machine.73710/
I think that it's like putting a reliant robin engine on Ferrari 308 .if you found a very long bed lathe, old and rusty, you could maybe cut it down to a more suitable length and shorten the feed screw, ok a real bodge but far better than trying to make one, the cut off part could also be used for something, a shaper bed? if you look and ask everyone something will turn up,
I took a look at your thread ,no more replies ...to be honest i moved more to this one more than the dore westbury model
http://www.lathes.co.uk/sharpmiller/
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this one is the better one its the riser im not keen on the same problem that the rf25 and newer wong fu rong fu models suffer from
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Forget about making a lathe. Much easier to buy a small broken lathe and fix it. Easier, quicker, cheaper and better plus it has a much higher probability of ever happening...
Can't wait to see your next step in this creationlike ive explained here my real problem was straightening the steel so it was flat and until i could find a way to get the metal flat without using the milling machine or lathe it was a no go
a lesson i learnt very quickly by building this part as part done by using a normal 4 1/2" grinder
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always better to start from a flat surface thats been leveled straight on 2 sides bottom piece and also the piece nearest the work area x2
by sander, grinder or homemade shaper tool
this is the main reason why i posted the drum sander video earlier in the thread post
It's not a bad idea@Memmeddu , may I suggest, print out a bit of paper, saying you're looking for a lathe, and give it in person to all the scrap merchants on your island. Even better pin it on their office walls. With your phone number on.
You can but try.
To be honest I don't like tolol
an old design and yes i have but dont like the bed space to gring on
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id prefer a build more on the design of the planner
http://www.lathes.co.uk/brittain/
Can't wait to see your next step in this creation
I know that it's not advisable but have you considered to make a surface grinder
It should be very easy to do
A table and a grinding wheel mounted on a spindle it could save you some time
dimensionally stable, perfectly flat surface from the machine to the workpiece.
To do that, you need to start with a dimensionally stable, perfectly flat thing. Easier to buy a broken one and cobble something together. A lathe looks simple enough but the precision it must maintain is actually very difficult to achieve. It’s not uncommon to find parts machined to within tens of millionths of an inch to allow accuracy within a thousandth.
Starting from scratch is difficult bordering on impossible.