For those who love lathes...

[Buzz]

I've never seen anything like this before...every 20 seconds my jaw got lower and lower.  Truly beautiful!


http://www.wimp.com/industrialcuts/

[Frosties]

Cheers for that fella, I loved it - feckin amazing!

[sadlonelygit]

i would love to see the code for THAT program!!
had one of the first mazak lazers back in the 90's......................we thought a 1 peice map of the UK was cool

[slappy]

I run a WFL120 millturn where I work, similiar to that but it is a six axis machine,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDEAZWhTA.
Thats not my company in the link, it looks like the factory in Austria where they make them.

[savvy]

Used a couple multi machining centres prior to retiring, must say at first frightening, especially when it's your first attempt at programming one !!!
 me I am an old fashioned handle spinner from the sixties.

[Oldgit]

absolutely brilliant.

[mickvp]

Pretty impressive. I liked this better though :



...and I claim bonus point for the motorcycle related content

[Rexr]

Thats fecking amazing

[ChristoT]

Those are ALL awesome! 

[ogri48]

Awesome. Sold mine over a year ago when I moved, but Just bought an old z thou, really gonna miss my old lathe doing that up... I was never that good but Christ it was handy even if you just needed summat simple like a wheel spacer. Made all the internals for my theoben rapid seven including a " rocket valve", and a two stage carbon fibre moderator, along with things like taking the 22 inch barrel down so it's not heavy and the delrin airstrippers in the mod. I'll never sell it, it's all I've got left from having the lathe now, and a genuine one off. Will shoot a heavy .20 twenty one grain pellet at 1100 feet per second as quiet as a ducks fart, and I can hit a 5p piece every time at 100 yards and mangle it..sold the lathe and loads of tooling for a grand...

[HovBiker]

Impressive,but where's all the craftsmanship skills gone?did my apprenticeship back in the day on manual Colchester lathes and Bridgeport Miller's.no cnc then.70% was machining 316 ss .still have nightmares thinking bout helical milling and dividing heads.glad I only push a pen now.

[mickvp]

I did my apprenticeship 10-15 years ago and we were still using Colchester lathes to learn our trades. We also now do a section on cnc programming which is now more relevant to large industry.

The craftsmanship is still there, just in a different form now (it's not so hands on). End of the day, somebody still programmed that machine to make those parts (or drew the part in CAD, and had the CAM software generate the programme). I know what you mean about it not being such a skilled craft now though, but from another view point, removing the human elemant means parts are more consistent and quality is better as a result.