Mini Lathe compound angle adjustment modification

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3 жыл бұрын

My solution for the annoying mini lathe compound slide angle adjustment problem.
Changing the compound slides angle on the mini lathe is incredible time-consuming and annoying. You have to wind the compound slide back and forth to reach the screws underneath the top of the compound slide.
There are some ways out here to get rid of this problem, but none I found satisfying enough. Some just drilled holes in the top part of the compound, to reach the screws at a certain position through the compound, some clamped from the side and lose the little rest of rigidity the compound has, some built a complicated lever mechanism.
I wanted to keep things simple (which does not mean, it's fast to built) and decided to copy "real" lathes and go for a bolt and nuts instead of screws for clamping and mill slots into the compounds base for reaching the nuts from the side.
This way I can clamp the compound in any position easily and maintain hopefully as much rigidity as possible.
Keep in mind, due to very limited resources, I have to improvise a lot and go unconvenient ways which may upset some of the "real machinists" out here.
Hope - with some creativity - in the end come to good resoults anyway.
Hope you enjoy. Feel free to like and subscribe to the channel. Thank you!
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@ThisIsToolman 3 жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of machining projects showing how to build this, that, and the other. Invariably they use their CNC knee mill. The average DIY guy doesn’t have a mill so the DIY is limited to the 1% that does have a mill. That’s why I like this guy. He uses a drill press, a hacksaw, a file, a piece of emery cloth, and his mini lathe. Most of us watching this probably have that.

@Pushyhog 3 жыл бұрын

notice he does not buy an extra 7 to 800$ of add ons for his clean mini laith. Hes off the hook broke the chain incredible.

@Orcinus24x5 2 жыл бұрын

Don't cut cast iron wet.

@ferrumignis 2 жыл бұрын

Using your bench drill table as a vertical table is really ingenious! Hopefully it's stiffer than the table on mine, which has the rigidity of a wet noodle.

@richkellow1535 3 жыл бұрын

I think both you and me know how satisfying a deep clean can be no matter how long we put it off.

@andyvan5692 2 жыл бұрын

NO, not a nut, using a spanner, try one with holes in it to use a tommy bar, no clumsy spanners; or one like the knobs on a photo tripod, tool-less, so no flaffing with tools!!

@gjkozy 3 жыл бұрын

Now you have a easy to set compound and a trued drill press table. Clever idea using the table and the project came out looking beautiful.

@hedning003 2 жыл бұрын

i'll steal that idea-my lathe is a bigger model whit more mass in the compound,so rigidity shoudnt be a problem

@dreamsteam8272 2 жыл бұрын

No scale to read out?

@jamesreed6121 3 жыл бұрын

Now that you have had a few months to use the mod, do you still feel that the rigidity has not been compromised. I like the mod but I'm concerned about loss of rigidity. If possible could you specify the dimensions for the slot? Thanks in advance.

@robhillman5957

You've done it again!!! Elegant simplicity, I have seen other videos which seem to overcomplicate this modification whereas yours is straightforward but very effective😊, regards, Rob.

@rb67mustang 2 жыл бұрын

You have addressed many issues everyone who owns one of these lathes has to suffer with. I will be doing all the upgrades that you have done to my lathe. Thanks for sharing your fine work.

@NilsJakobson 2 жыл бұрын

This certainly is one of the best mini lathe improvement videos I have seen so far in my entire life. I am looking forwards to doing this mod for my pos lathe.

@BeaverInATie 3 жыл бұрын

Its amazing to see what you are capable of with a more average man's workshop. Keep up the good work!

@Sternhammer89 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent Mod - I am a very new machinist and I think it's great that half the jobs you want to do, you end up having to make tools for :-)

@joegrech8078 3 жыл бұрын

It is people like you that I admire,not those with millions worth of CNC equipment, keep it up ,time and imagination is all you need in this trade,and to learn from your mistakes,when you create something with the minimum of tools,the satisfaction if far greater,

@MykytaKozlov 3 жыл бұрын

Well done, got an inspiration from you to do the same to mine 7x tailstock and compound angle! The things I am thinking about are: 1) based on your experience I'd rather remove most of iron by drilling several holes of 2-3 mm diameter by pattern to some precomputed depth, and then use cutting mill to clean that up; 2) you've been using DTI to align center of mill, but, if have more time to fiddle with DTI and 4jaw chuck - I'd rather check that mill tooth are aligned, to make it cut in 'uninterrupted' way.

@vikassm 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful project! Following all of your uploads 😀

@HM-Projects 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent lateral thinking 😜

@SqueakyNeb 2 жыл бұрын

That is absolutely brilliant. The whole process is brilliant. Drill press table as a poor man's precision angle plate too! I thought that was a joke when you put it in the lathe, then I thought you were crazy, but no, genius!