Place I'm at has a 4 position square turrett on their lathe. Sometimes it's not quite enough, especially considering the spots are two left, two right. We have an aloris also, so holding a boring bar is covered, but it would be nice to hold drills, groove tools, cutoff tools, etc... It's cnc, but stopping to change a tool is ok. So I was wondering if there is some fairly rigid quick change gimmic out there for the lathe. Looking in catalogs all I see is quick change boring bars. If you found something like this, please share the info...it would be greatly appreciated.
Quick change lathe info....palease...
Feb 09, 2010
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============ lots of stuff available. For mail order discount see
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or roll your own.
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one time KRF sold prints for these. The only part that is hard to make is the index base. for some samples see
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for a discussion see
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Let the group know how this works out.
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Think something like this would work for you?
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Think something like this would work for you?
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****** Yep, that's sweet. I wonder how rigid it is.
I believe Dorian also makes a power turret. Their web site sucks, no pictures and very little description, however everything has a list price of $0.00. I would just call and get 1 of everything, something is sure to work for you.
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Thank You, Randy
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Might be too pricey for what your looking to do:
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Actually, they are buying a new lathe, prolly an okuma captain. suweeeet!!!
Vinny, Cool, glad to see someone boosting the economy!
Best, Steve
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