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Posted by pinguino on October 5, 2006, 8:22 am
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Hello gentleman,
I own a Ceriani lathe. You can see it on
http://www.ceriani-mu.com/uk/uk_zoom_david203_norton.htm
As you can see on
http://www.ceriani-mu.com/uk/uk_zoom_david_testa_comandi.htm and in the
link above, this lathe has no "feet" or "legs".
I would like to bolt the lathe on my (steel) stand with leveling
mounts/jackscrew/jackmount or
something similar, but I have no idea about to do that without lathe
feet.
Manufacturer did put two holes in the belt cabinet (the box on the left
side of the lathe). This is
made by sheet metal and it is bolted to the bed. I think it is just for
"locking" lathe, not for
supporting it.
Under the tailstock, there is space for a little plate. This plate is
supported from bed and, if
bolted to the stand, presses the bed against stand. This way, the plate
lock the bed to the stand.
Not a nice setup IMHO. (And I don't like three point support...)
Holes in the belt cabinet and plate under tailstock are the suggested
ways to bolt the lathe to a
stand in the manufacturer's opinion (I asked for that to the
manufacturer).
Have you a better idea?
I did think to put two aluminum/stee plates, one under the headstock
and and the other under the tailstock,each supported with four leveling
bolts.
But leveling a lathe supported by eight bolts is not a simple thing.
For instance, What if I use just two leveling mount for every plate?
(lathe weighs 85 kg).
Or what if I drill a couple of hole in the bed and then I put four
L-shaped plated just to create a
sort of feet? (But drilling the bed doesn't make me happy...). Lets'
say, something like in the pic
visible on
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=015442;p=0
Thank you in advance for your answers.
lele
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Posted by Peter Neill on October 5, 2006, 11:22 am
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pinguino wrote:
> Hello gentleman,
<snip>
>
> I did think to put two aluminum/stee plates, one under the headstock
> and and the other under the tailstock,each supported with four leveling
> bolts.
>
> lele
I think you may generate more problems than you solve that way.
If I were you I would go ahead and put an aluminium or steel plate
under each end to give it a possibly more 'even' mounting surface than
the sheet steel cabinet, and then bolt through these plates into the
cabinet.
Do a test cut (information on setup and test cuts here
http://tinyurl.com/j4pon ), and then adjust the level by putting shims
between the headstock/tailstock casting and the plate.
When I had a Chester DB10G lathe I did it exactly this way and ended up
having to put about 0.8mm of shim under one side of the headstock '
foot' casting to get it level-ish.
Peter
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Posted by pinguino on October 9, 2006, 3:42 am
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Peter Neill wrote:
>
> I think you may generate more problems than you solve that way.
I think you're absolutely right :-) It was just an attempt.
>
> If I were you I would go ahead and put an aluminium or steel plate
> under each end to give it a possibly more 'even' mounting surface than
> the sheet steel cabinet, and then bolt through these plates into the
> cabinet.
Please give a look on the pics I posted of MY lathe (the pics on the
CERIANI site were just sample pics)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y28032EED
http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fkedini/album?.dir=f9bdre2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//it.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos
Do you confirm your idea?
thank you a lot.
lele
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Posted by pinguino on October 9, 2006, 3:38 am
Please log in for more thread options I added some pics of the lathe. I hope this can help to clarify.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y28032EED
http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fkedini/album?.dir=f9bdre2&.src=ph&s...
regards
lele
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