Help bed casting

Do you have a pattern made?

The tricky part is the pattern since there are commercial foundries who would cast your lathe bed, but prices may not moderate.

not yet, but I think I can come up with a pattern once I locate someone who is willing to cast it foe less than what I paid for my first house.

Otto

Otto Quite a few people have bought an extra bed and grafted onto the original. In your case it would take two. There is a Yahoo group devoted to extended minilathes.

Rex B

thanks for the tip, though that option is also one I am trying to avoid i didn't know there was a goup specfically for extended minis do you knkow the name of the group?

thx Otto

Just my opinion, but I think you'll find so much work involved in this that buying a larger lathe would make much more sense. The casting will have to be aged, or heat treated to stabilize it. Then, you're looking at quite a few machining operations - milling, followed by grinding or hand scraping. Why not just buy a larger machine?

John Martin

I would love to buy a 7x mini with a longer bed(36 in between centers) no such animal exisit, so far as I know

Otto