Alaks McGREGORE
2nd June 2013, 11:35 AM
Hi, I am going to tell you about my lathes, well, Dad's lathes.
I will first talk about the smaller of the two lathes I use, it has a 24 volt, 200w, 2750 RPM DC motor that drives a belt from a sewing machine to a home made brass pulley that is attached to a half inch drive shaft which is part of the collet chuck that will give you almost 100% accuracy when doing anything, your able to take your work off and put it back on later and still have that nice stable work piece but a collet chuck doesn't allow you to chuck big things unless you turn the end down, overall this is an awesome lathe and because it is a DC motor and the lathe is light with just 20mm bright bar bed bars and a small design means you can take it camping and run it off two 12 volt car batters plus with the use of cam locks for the tool rest and the tail stock it is easy to use although they aren't the easiest to make, I find myself using this lathe for everything I can and I always make my pens on it.
A few pics of the tail stock.270836270845 These are showing you how we have mounted the motor. We do the same thing with the DML 24X.270838270839 Now some pics of the cam lock and the tool rest.270844270843A look at the motor and head stock.270840270842A view from allong the bed bars.270841And an over view.270837270836That's the little lathe.
Next is the Record Power DML 24X that we fitted with a $200 24 volt, 375w, 1750 RPM DC motor so now we have speed control and apart from the tool rest there is no other modifications to it so the rest can be found on the net.
How we have mounted the the motor.270825270823270813270815270826The specs of the motor.270816 Over view. 270835
Now last but not least is how we power all of this, there is a 0-30 volt, 20 amp switch mode DC power supply from dick smith that then goes to a pulse width modulated power supply (PWM) that dad bought as a kit from Jaycar and that uses Anderson plugs to connect with either lathes
270818Anderson plugs.270827switch mode power supply.270819270829 PWM.
I will first talk about the smaller of the two lathes I use, it has a 24 volt, 200w, 2750 RPM DC motor that drives a belt from a sewing machine to a home made brass pulley that is attached to a half inch drive shaft which is part of the collet chuck that will give you almost 100% accuracy when doing anything, your able to take your work off and put it back on later and still have that nice stable work piece but a collet chuck doesn't allow you to chuck big things unless you turn the end down, overall this is an awesome lathe and because it is a DC motor and the lathe is light with just 20mm bright bar bed bars and a small design means you can take it camping and run it off two 12 volt car batters plus with the use of cam locks for the tool rest and the tail stock it is easy to use although they aren't the easiest to make, I find myself using this lathe for everything I can and I always make my pens on it.
A few pics of the tail stock.270836270845 These are showing you how we have mounted the motor. We do the same thing with the DML 24X.270838270839 Now some pics of the cam lock and the tool rest.270844270843A look at the motor and head stock.270840270842A view from allong the bed bars.270841And an over view.270837270836That's the little lathe.
Next is the Record Power DML 24X that we fitted with a $200 24 volt, 375w, 1750 RPM DC motor so now we have speed control and apart from the tool rest there is no other modifications to it so the rest can be found on the net.
How we have mounted the the motor.270825270823270813270815270826The specs of the motor.270816 Over view. 270835
Now last but not least is how we power all of this, there is a 0-30 volt, 20 amp switch mode DC power supply from dick smith that then goes to a pulse width modulated power supply (PWM) that dad bought as a kit from Jaycar and that uses Anderson plugs to connect with either lathes
270818Anderson plugs.270827switch mode power supply.270819270829 PWM.