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Had a small table lathe that reached its potential quite fast. Then bought a bit larger 3t lathe, that was fine to start with... But then I got the bright idea of upgrading it. And now I'm rebuilding the electric side up to the motor with contactors... DC circuit and safety switches not wired.
Gutting the old connections
Mock-up of the setup
Power box of the lathe
New controll panel: with speed indicator, rotation direction switch, start/stop buttons, e-stops, coolant pump & light switches.
The lathe. (sorry for the wrong order of the pics)
cempics
C’mon, leave some for the rest of us...
makeSX
Maybe the money you dont have to spend on these?
BramGallagher
That's p nice machinery there what're you planning on turning?
makeSX
Doesn't eweryone just NEED a lathe in their lives? ? I had a few parts I needed to be done, so instead of paying someone to make them ->
Zambezionis
Spent 3500 EUR on a lathe. I made 3 bronze coffee tampers and few small parts, saved 300. Everybody knows me as the lathe guy. Priceless
makeSX
That's exactly the reason to get a lathe! ?
makeSX
I bought the mini lathe, made few special parts for friends with it, until it had payed itself back, then sold it and bought this big boy ->
makeSX
With the money I got from it (yeah I know, almost the same price) and now I have the same plan with this. Because of the length I'm ->
makeSX
Thinking of adding a small milling machine on the other end, to expand the possibilities on what to make with it