Munty Scruntfundle
Established Member
Hi there.
Another thought this evening, I know, I need to be careful.
A screw centre on a morse taper would be very helpful. At the moment I have to fit different jaws to secure another bit of metal with a screw in which is attached with another bit of metal. It's a very over engineered solution. Yes the jaws come off and other things can be attached, but that's all time spent not really enjoying myself.
So why not put a morse taper on a screw? Or the other way around if you want to be dangerous. I found one on the bay, but only one. So I'm assuming people put think this is a bad idea.
There's only one problem I can really foresee, for some reason the workpiece stops rotating, the motor and belts continue rotating, which chews up the inside of your final drive shaft necessitating the purchase of a new lathe. Yeah, I can see the downside!
However the hamsters inside my lathe aren't particularly muscly, I don't know what 550w through the drive train converts to in hp, but I'm pretty sure it's not much. It's pretty easy to stall skimming a 6 inch diameter.
I worked with a 10 ton radial drill for some years, when that span a collet at high revs it didn't do that much damage. A 5 ton arm bouncing up and down is a little alarming though! I forget what make it was, the exploding hydraulic system buried it in the end. Poor old thing. Carlson springs to mind, but I don't know why.
Anyway, any ideas? (The morse screw, not the drill.) (Unless you know.)
I'll let you know how I get on with it when it arrives, (no idea where it's coming from, Japanastonia or somewhere, and as long as it doesn't totally lunch the lathe it should save me a lot of faff and time.
Another thought this evening, I know, I need to be careful.
A screw centre on a morse taper would be very helpful. At the moment I have to fit different jaws to secure another bit of metal with a screw in which is attached with another bit of metal. It's a very over engineered solution. Yes the jaws come off and other things can be attached, but that's all time spent not really enjoying myself.
So why not put a morse taper on a screw? Or the other way around if you want to be dangerous. I found one on the bay, but only one. So I'm assuming people put think this is a bad idea.
There's only one problem I can really foresee, for some reason the workpiece stops rotating, the motor and belts continue rotating, which chews up the inside of your final drive shaft necessitating the purchase of a new lathe. Yeah, I can see the downside!
However the hamsters inside my lathe aren't particularly muscly, I don't know what 550w through the drive train converts to in hp, but I'm pretty sure it's not much. It's pretty easy to stall skimming a 6 inch diameter.
I worked with a 10 ton radial drill for some years, when that span a collet at high revs it didn't do that much damage. A 5 ton arm bouncing up and down is a little alarming though! I forget what make it was, the exploding hydraulic system buried it in the end. Poor old thing. Carlson springs to mind, but I don't know why.
Anyway, any ideas? (The morse screw, not the drill.) (Unless you know.)
I'll let you know how I get on with it when it arrives, (no idea where it's coming from, Japanastonia or somewhere, and as long as it doesn't totally lunch the lathe it should save me a lot of faff and time.