Subject: Taig as XZ lathe slide

As Robin said, there is a reason the Hardinge slides cost so much - my
friends Hydraulic Hardinge has massive slides and are finished to extreme
precision. That said, I think that you could use the Taig x/y mill base for
this purpose, but with much lighter cuts - the main reason? The base is
mounted by three pieces of angle iron which are not meant to take the
cutting loads, on the mill they are just mounting feet and don't take any
load.
You would probably be better off buying an import x/y table and having it
reground precisely.
felice@... is Felice Luftschein and Nicholas Carter. See our web pages
http://www.casco.net/~felice

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:53:00 -0000
> From: jvicars@...
> Subject: Taig as XZ lathe slide
>
> What about bolting the XY part of a Taig mill to the bed of a
> Hardinge HC Chucker to make a CNC? Who has one of these mills that
> can vouch for stiffness?
> How easy would it be to remove the Z and use it like I described?
> I have done some searching for a lathe slide retrofit. Used Hardinge
> slides (narrow bed) are about 3000 bucks. Slides from people like
> Omniturn and Upgrade Technologies are 7500 bucks and up! Ridiculous!