Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Subject: Taig as XZ lathe slide

How big are these slides and what do they look like?

Maybe I can cast one for you. You machine it. Might be a lot cheaper!

Smoke
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Vicars <jvicars@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Subject: Taig as XZ lathe slide

>Doug,
> I have talked to Omniturn and Upgrade Technologies (now Upgrade New

England). Omniturn will sell you nothing but a complete

>kit, you were right about that. UT will sell you a slide, they cost 7500

bucks. He said that he MIGHT be able to scrounge me up a

>used one and that would be at least 3500.
> I am working on a design of my own, even though it will probably end up

as one of those half finished ones you mentioned.

>
>dougrasmussen@... wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> It's somewhat of a moot point because I doubt very much Omniturn
>> would sell a slide assembly only and not a complete conversion kit.
>> You can't even buy their tooling unless you can prove you are the
>> owner of a genuine Omniturn machine.
>>
>> Even if they would sell their slide assembly, I don't think it'd be
>> as much as $7.5K. The whole kit including control, servos, etc, is
>> only around $16-17K.
>>
>> As to your point about building your own slide....I've heard quite a
>> few machinists say how easy it would be to build one. Still haven't
>> seen any. I have seen a couple of half completed units, though.
>>
>> If someone were interested in building a slide for a Hardinge type
>> machine, the unit from Upgrade Technologies (or whatever their
>> current name is) might be a better choice. Upgrade will sell
>> components, actually they'll sell you anything. Cash talks with
>> Upgrade!!
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Brian Pitt <bfp@e...> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've used an Omniturn retrofit on a Hardinge clone at the shop
>> > for hobby use 7.5k would be alot to spend
>> > for a job shop it bolts on in a couple hours and pays for itself in
>> no time
>> > it all depends on where you draw the bottom line :-)
>> >
>> > the hardware end is fairly simple and could be thrown together over
>> > a weekend or two ,the Z axis uses linear rails hung over the
>> original dovetail
>> > on a gull wing mount to reduce the slide height and widen the base
>> > the X axis slide is about the same with a gang tooling plate on top
>> > 5/8 ballscrews and mounts with servo motors or steppers + encoders
>> > and you can move on to the electronics and software parts
>> >
>> > Brian
>> >
>>
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