Help needed with a small project on the metal lathe

#1

Hey all and @metaltechs, I haven’t yet been inducted on the metal lathe, but I would really appreciate some help from someone to create a small aluminium artefact (either one of the two objects pictured below).

How easy would the inward taper be to achieve on our metal lathe (on the left hand object)?

I can do the working drawings, create any guides needed and of course buy all of the aluminium.

I would appreciate some advice and more than happy to return the favour with my skillset, volunteer a bunch of time in the metalshop or grab some beers!

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#2

Easy, that’s what lathe is designed to do.
Lathe availability is a little intermittent atm, we’ve just decommissioned old one and the new one though already working requires a few bits to be finished.

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#3

I see, thanks for the info @scythian! Good to hear. Would it be up and running at any point this week? Are you in the Makerspace any evenings this week?

#4

I’m partially away this week, but can be in Tuesday or Friday. I’m not 100% sure what we’re missing, I’ll have a look. It is not fully fixable this week, but we may (or may not) have capability to turn your parts. At the moment there’s no coolant, guard/estops are missing, lathe is not level, and I’m not sure what compound looks like.

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#5

Ahh okay, thanks for explaining the Situation. Friday evening would be great! Would 19:00 work? I’ll buy some spare aluminium in case we need to run a few test runs.

#6

Will the new lathe require separate inductions?

#7

five minute intro to the new controls, and if we do thread cutting then some extra, let me think about it

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