Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CNC lathe designs / horizontal miller

Doug Fortune wrote:

> There was talk a short while ago about building a HMM (horizontal
> milling machine). Stick a chuck and a longer bed on it, and it
> looks a lathe.... or make a lathe's head move up and down and
> you get a HMM.
>
> The basis for such a combo machine would seem to be: finding
> a way to attach a vertical perpendicular column (upon which
> the spindle/chuck raises and lowers) to a long horizontal slide
> upon which the carriage (aka milling table) travels.
>
> I've always thought building such a machine would be nice.

I've posted this before, but I really like the look of this thing:

http://www.lathes.co.uk/meyerberger/index.html

Matt

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Ecclesiastes 1
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has
enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something
new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
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