Miniature Lathe

[rossbotics]

Started working on this project about a month ago now, it's starting to take shape and looking more like a lathe than a pile of parts and pieces, so far it's coming together nicely, although I must say working with these small of pieces does become a little cumbersome at times, it's been along time since I worked with small taps like 2-56, although in my early days of machining I worked for a guy and we did a lot 0-80 threads.

I'm designing this as I go along and documenting the build in cad, the bed is 12" long that's been machined and ground from solid steel, the headstock and tailstock were machined then ground in alignment to fit the beds ways perfectly, this project will take me several more months to complete I'm sure of, not only is it a model but it will be a working model with power feed.

I have attached a couple photos of the build as it is at this stage, anyone with a comment or idea would be appreciated

Doug