Dedicated Ring Lathe

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jecues

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Does anyone out there have a lathe setup for making ring billet. I was thinking of building a small lathe set up to mill ring billet and slice rings off with minimal waste, and I'm looking for ideas. Thanks for all advice. JIMM
 
It does not matter what business you are in, you can not have too much equipment, or too much shop space.
go for it.
Neil
 
GBCues said:
Check with SCDiveTeam - he had one a while back
Gary
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Thanks for the plug Gary!

This is a dedicated ring slot cutting machine. It is for that singular use only as I de-termed the ability for the lathe to spin by welding the spindle bore to the indexing jig. It has a custom fabricated vertical router mount to the cross slide.

This machine works perfect as I used it for 5 years before learning to run my CNC to produce billets. Very low hours of the Rigid router.

Still For Sale for $ 650.00 Firm Local Pick Up Only 20 Miles north of Chicago

This Atlas Clausing Lathe was modified to be a fixed unit for making billets with 360 degree indexing. The machine is mounted to a 48" x 24" x 1.5" wooden plywood base.

It has a Rigid Router mounted vertically and cuts the slots at 90 degress on the X Axis. It uses a spring loaded spur drive center. It will make billets up to 1.320 in dia.

I welded the 360 degree 5C Collet Indexing Head to the spindle bore so it is a dedicated machine for slotting billets. I used this machine for 5 years and was very happy with it's performance making my billets.( see pics of rings on cues in the next post for an example )

I stopped using this machine when I got my CNC skills up to par and I now do my billets on the CNC. I need bench space for a new sander.


This machine is near Chicago and I am not interested in shipping it. Local pick up only.


Rick

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Sure wish that was farther down south ;-)

Larry


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