Very clever and thank you for taking the time to record, edit and share your work with those of us who appreciate your efforts to spread the knowledge. Cheers brother

Maxim you're a genius! That's exactly what I was looking for and just needs a geared Nema 17 - after all a cross slide only needs to move slowly. Personally I'd like to keep the scale on the handle, and be able to disengage the gear to use the handle manually without winding the motor, but these would be simple developments of a brilliantly simple design. Excellent engineering.

Excellent work! Thank you Maxim.

This modification of the cross-slide is very well done. I was looking for a solution to my cross-slide slop and this is the simplest fro me. Thank you for putting this video up.

MAXIM YOU DID IT EXCELLENT, I AM EXPECTING MORE VIDEOS FROM YOU. THANKS FOR THE VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU SHAREED FOR US.

Brilliant work. Particularly the neat way you added the stepper. Will be off to the 3D printer to do a basic model to start. Thanks so much.

I printed the gear box for stepper. Great job, Great design !! Thanks Maxim !

well done the best improvement I have seen for this lathe I will defenatly use it on mine. Keep it up.

Bruce here, great job of engineering and fabrication.

That is seriously cool! Ill be adding bearings to mine for sure

Nicely done! I'll have to look at mine to see what can be done to make it work better.

What an excellent modification, Great work!

Great ideas. Nice work!

I printed out the part and set it up on my G0768 which is the same model. It works very well. Thank you.

excellent craftmanship. thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much it looks a lot of effort great video very clear. Will try it out.

I never thought about 3D printing the parts needed to add bearings. I'm glad I got a chance to view this video. Now I can smooth out the cross-slide on my Mini Lathe.

Thanks so much for this. I printed it out but I should of measured first. After a few adjustments and 2 failed prints, this worked really well on my AL-51G. Now i've got to fix the compound slide's mount, it's so bad.

What a fantastic design. Being able to keep the dial would be very beneficial though. Thank you for this! Cheers from Canada

What a brilliant idea, its got to be the best cross slide upgrade I've seen on you tube, Well done.

I did something very similar on a mill it works great.. like how u integrated it nicely.. great job 💪

Very nice job 👍

very good job..thanks for your time

Very cool. Good work.

those 3d prints are good. theres's some nice work here

🎉nice job thank you for sharing this with us

That was excellent. !!!

Really thank you for the idea and the file...

Just found your channel and watched the x-axis power feed. Really impressed - great work. Any chance of future projects for powering the axes on a small milling machine?

Dude your the man I ordered mine about a month ago for my MX210-V Just got it yesterday and installed today and it has made a world of difference in the movement. (Now I just need to get it all adjusted right ). I recommend this too anyone with this type of lathe. Say do you by chance have one for the slide above that one ? Thanks. From a happy camper.

Amazing! I just Subs to see more of you genius ideas 👍🏼

Very cool design.

Excellent idea

Incredible project... Did you end-up keeping the Rocketronics controller ? I will sure use your hardware solution for the x and z drives and encoder... Quite a success.. Thank you for all this sharing...

This is the best upgrade I've ever seen! How can I donate to you for a perfect ideas?

Really smart, wish you could buy this.

Really great idea, thanks for sharing.

Great video! Could you maybe do a little tour of your workshop?

I have a similar lathe and it also has play on the handwheel. All in all, I got used to it

A steel tube spacer between the two inner races would be nice, to transmit the tightening load via steel to the carriage, it would need to be cut to exactly the correct length to give you the right preload but you have a lathe with which to do that ;)

Hello I really like what you did around I have the same turn and I will embark on the modification a small question what model of tool holder is mounted on your lathe? because the original model is not great thank you good continuation gilles

Hell of a job you are a genius you should start selling them

Aluminium oxidizes so you will always get black oil , Anyway these small lathes tend to have a lot of backlash , because of the poor threading in the casting of the cross slide and Main feed slide, at a guess I expect they used the wrong Pitch for easy threading. But yours is not to bad :) I love the idea of adding nema motors, I do have a few spares around and a controller so i will have a go.

well done. thanks for sharing

What a great video and project! I have the exact same lathe, with the same backlash problems in the cross slide. Would you be willing to share the fusion file you created for the replacement part? I would love to try it.

Very clever 👍

beau travail !!! merci ..

I've used a lot of 3D printed parts for my lathe and mill. Interested in what type of filament you used. Some of my PLA parts were just not strong enough playing with infill and number of walls. Normally I have to make partial parts to make sure they will print especially for bearings or fasteners to fit. Nice work!

Ты молодец. У нас схожая точка зрения. Правда у меня нет 3д принтера, пошел более простым путем, но твой вариант исчерпывает все нюансы. Возможно прибегну к твоему решению. Спасибо.

Good! Super!

Top Job, great!!!!!!!!! Germany

Макс, ты крут. Респект💪. И спасибо тебе за твой английский, я понял все👍

I like how you mounted the motor on the apron. I want to do something similar to my mini lathe. I would like to add power cross feed but I basically want a forward/reverse and possibly a speed control knob. How difficult do you think that would be?

Exellence!

Great! Thank you for that work. Does it fit for the Sieg SC3 lathe, it is called mini lathe also but I'd like to be shure.

Hi Maxim, it's not clear to me how you control the movement of the two axis during the automatic threading of the bolt. Did you write a specific code with Arduino to make such operation?

Hi maxim. Say could you tell me what degree your crosslide and tool post are set at. It looks like 30 degree on the crossslide. So would I put the tool post on 30 degree also. I’m playing around with it and it seems like my cutter is going at a slight angle.

Nice video! Thanks. Had you change the interior nut screw? i mean at the other end of the vise.

Остатками английского пришлось пользоваться, но в принципе все понял)

Очень понравилось. Большое спасибо!

Do you have a all your stuff to print somewhere ?? I'll be purchasing one of these lathe soon. Great work

nice job.

Wow great improvement! Are you selling/sharing those STL files?

Hallo Maxim, super Verbesserungen hast du dir einfallen lassen und danke fürs teilen!

You could make a new wheel for use with the motorized mount So you can keep your dial for threading. Maybe a stackable design with a pins so they all rotate together.

Отличный апгрейд!

Спасибо, Задумался над таким вариантом подключения второй оси.

Dear, could you indicate the models of the two bearings? I love your videos, they are very helpful, Greetings from Argentina!

hi maxim i roke the holder for my screw . do you still have the printing program . will muc apreciate that plase

How do you compensate the huge inertia of the wheel and handle? Wouldn't it be better if it would be driven directly with a planetary gear? I mean what for a improvement is that with the handle still on? I mean if I would have a lathe and I would upgrade it to a cnc lathe then personally I wouldn't need the handles anymore. I would load my G code in the cnc lathe and just supervise it. Anyhow great work. Keep it up!

How did you make the controller box? Wiring, programming etc.

Top!

Thanks for sharing with us your work, but I've not understand why you have not used the axial bearing 😊

Hello @ Maxim Kachurovskiy you make awesome project. Does your published code for Arduino support 2nd axis. I prepared everything and solder it to your PCB, but 2nd axis does'n work, so I guess project is still in progress right ?

Would you have a Gcode model for the compound-slide?

Hi Maxim, you can tell me what maximum voltage admits ore 17 and what would be the optimal voltage. Thank you!

Exactly, just a couple of week ago I got my lathe here and even today (year 2024) the China factories are having same issues ! what is really frustrating to me is, the factories have all the resources and quality raw materials the need to do it right yet they chose to cheap out on stuff like this... yes from day one I had to start modifying mine since I do not like at all bad precision machines .. next for me is the cross slide that even with the adjusting of those 3 screws will not do the job -- wayyy too much slack

Thanks for the video. I printed the no-motor version of this part and bearings are ordered. Using deep-groove bearings instead of thrust bearings is a good idea. They can take 1/3 of their rated radial load in the axial direction. For 608 bearings, their rated radial load (static) is 307 lbf (1370 N) so they function as a thrust bearing up to that point. (That's the low estimate---the dynamic limit may be as high as 260 lbf but that's probably for fairly high-speed turning. Hand operation is closer to static.) The axial load on the bearing during cutting is unknown but it could be as high as 100 lbf, so I would say that this is a marginal design. In theory, the cutting forces are straight down. Also, the elasticity of PLA is considerable compared even to aluminum, which is another weak point of this design. However, it looks like you've had good results so maybe it's good enough. I'm a fairly timid machinist so it will probably be good enough for me. I'd check the pre-load occasionally because PLA can creep a bit and you might find excess lash in the cross slide over several months. I think I'll Also, if you want to use the smaller bearing on both ends, a PLA spacer could solve the problem of the dial touching the other race. Compression is a strong mode for PLA and the printer has high resolution in the Z axis.

super

Я случайно по комментарию в другом канале увидел, что вы оказывается по русски говорите))) Интересная реализация электронной гитары у вас. Скорее всего хочу повторить ваш проект, только кнопки поставить побольше. Отлично!

Do you think a Nema 17 could work also ? considering there is the gear reduction too.

This is genius! I also have a 3D-printer and make every kind of shit on it, but I could not realize I can print critical lathe parts on it! (And I also have a similar lathe with all the same problems :) ). But now I see: indeed - the possible additional deformation that the printed part brings to the whole cross slide assembly does not exceed the precision of the lathe. The play in the original design decreases the precision much more than your part(s)! Like odnoznachno! :)

Nice!! I think there is less backslash when using a Tooth belt. ;-)

Hi Maxim. Can you provide me with the fusion 360 file of the nema 17 motor bracket? my lathe is the same as yours but the support on my lathe does not quite fit well and I have to modify it. Thanks. A greeting.

It is nice to have a 3 D printer.

Максим, подскажите, плиз, какую программу для черчения Вы используете в видео? Maxim, please, can you tell me, what program do you use to draw?

Do you sell these parts on eBay or Etsy? This would make a great improvement in my slide as I don't have a plastic printer.

Me gustaria si usted pudiera el esquematico para construir la electronica que mueve el motor, es un proyecto magnifico gracias.

What size bearings did you use ? Thank you

daam cool

GM 4L60E transmission thrust bearings

can u show cross slide nut??

Maxim, why don't you use 100% infill? There will be no cracks around the screws...

Is this model on Thingaverse?

Hey do u sell any of these 3d printed parts

Максим, а где вы брали станок?

With this static gearbox the manual option is not possible!! Which make the Handel absolute or just act like an obstacle !!

Taper bearings would work better. Take the load both ways.

😊👍👍👍

Круто!Лайк!