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The lathe I used for these is a Mazak Super Quick Turn 10MS.
This video shows all of its features pretty well, the live tooling and rear spindle.
Here is a picture of the machine itself,
Here's a link to the website I made for the place I work, there are pictures of most of our machines here.
Equipment
One of these was probably a couple hundred thousand new, but I would guess that you could get a used one for around 80 or so now. The thing that gets you though is the tooling, 99.9% of the time tooling costs a whole bunch more than the machine. The little bit I used to cut the threads on these heads costs around $140, the boring bars are about 5 times that. And of course that doesn't count tool holders or the collets and spindles.
I bought my little lathe from Senkat, its just a little 7x10 from Harbor Freight. Its pretty out of whack on alignment so as soon as I'm done with these grooves I'll be taking it completely apart and giving it an entire overhaul. (Its really not necessary, but I'm used to working with some pretty serious equipment and this little guy really doesn't compare as it is now but I think I can get it close ) I'll be converting it to CNC soon, it should be incredibly easy since I can make pretty much any part I would need!
I don't want to threadjack Ken's thread any more! I could talk about machining all day! It's my other, more expensive, hobby now!
This video shows all of its features pretty well, the live tooling and rear spindle.
Here is a picture of the machine itself,
Here's a link to the website I made for the place I work, there are pictures of most of our machines here.
Equipment
One of these was probably a couple hundred thousand new, but I would guess that you could get a used one for around 80 or so now. The thing that gets you though is the tooling, 99.9% of the time tooling costs a whole bunch more than the machine. The little bit I used to cut the threads on these heads costs around $140, the boring bars are about 5 times that. And of course that doesn't count tool holders or the collets and spindles.
I bought my little lathe from Senkat, its just a little 7x10 from Harbor Freight. Its pretty out of whack on alignment so as soon as I'm done with these grooves I'll be taking it completely apart and giving it an entire overhaul. (Its really not necessary, but I'm used to working with some pretty serious equipment and this little guy really doesn't compare as it is now but I think I can get it close ) I'll be converting it to CNC soon, it should be incredibly easy since I can make pretty much any part I would need!
I don't want to threadjack Ken's thread any more! I could talk about machining all day! It's my other, more expensive, hobby now!