So SpaceX has Elon Musk, but we have +Peter van der Walt
He is scheming yet another expansion of Laserweb…
This time we’d like to venture into running a lathe…
From Peter:
I am sitting on enough Vslot, easy accessible metal lasercutting for carriage plates, have a router, have some big nema23s. Very little stopping me from building a CNC lathe… All except a drivetrain. . I was looking at this one in my local Adendorfs the other day (local equivalent to Harbor Freight) .
http://www.adendorff.co.za/ProductDetails/Woodworking-Tools/Lathes-Moulders-and-Routers/Lathe-Machines/1000MM-WOOD-LATHE/537 thinking how easy it would be to bolt on a cnc XZ axis.
At ZAR1995 it works out to about US$150…
So you may need to rise up 20 okes to throw a beer my way to get the deal through (;
http://openhardwarecoza.github.io/donate
This should give the community a) a open source bolt on cnc upgrade design for a popular wood lathe available at Canadian tyre, harbor freight, and addendorfs. As always i’ll provide the designs for the custom lasercut pieces, and clockwerk mech can do a groupbuy for guys looking to get a set. . And b) lathe cam support in CNCWeb/LaserWeb/Latheweb (really needs a Rename)
