Seadog
Save the planet. It's the only one with rum!
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There won't be enough stones for them all to hide under, I don't know what Lebanese for 'back stabbing' is, but there's going to be a lot of it going on.
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DAPPH
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Lovely machine once I'd fitted the modification that over came reflected light on shiny light surfaces stopping the filament feeding . printed a few trial parts for friends in PTEG and ABS here & there but nothing as complicated as the collet ....yet .
I've not done a lot with it at present , had a few surgical interventions 2017 to 2021 that took a bit getting over , then possibly got C19 in November last year ....just getting back on my feet .
DAPPH
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Will do .... sometime tomorrow ., I'll start a new threadCan you let us have a pic, I'm trying to visualise your setup but it's getting late and my head's full of fog.
, " Vice Squad " 
Copying the lista drawer organizer design, but having trouble putting in the slots for the dividers, I cut one in using the combine tool, but when i tried to use a rectangular/straigth pattern, the slots won't 'compute'. Any tips on how to do this, i could do it manually for each slot but there must be an easier way. I tried both the faces and the features option in the pattern menu.
What i have now, blank body with one slot cut in:
What I want (smaller version with all the slots put in manually, took me ages)
During the pattern operation:
But when i hit ok i get this notification:
Original lista product:
Thanks for any advice!
What i have now, blank body with one slot cut in:
What I want (smaller version with all the slots put in manually, took me ages)
During the pattern operation:
But when i hit ok i get this notification:
Original lista product:
Thanks for any advice!
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How did you create the main body?
Extruded from a sketch.
daedalusminos
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OK, during your patterning of the feature, try setting Compute Option to Optimized
DAPPH
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If you are meaning my monkey metal shuttle , that's not a viable idea as it is also a sacrificial part , designed to be the weakest link if you crash the saddle or top slide etc. like I did .... saves bending or busting the lead screw or it anchored bearing end or also the stripping the teeth of the Zamack change gears
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How about machining it as two steel parts with a small brass pin transmitting the torque, that way when it breaks again you've only got to turn a little rod and reassemble rather than get a whole new casting made up.
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You must be a rich man then, they are quite expensive
I never had a use for them, offered them on here and no one was interested so threw them in the skip
They came in a job lot of lista`s I bought for the mancave. https://s1116.photobucket.com/user/mypickys/slideshow/mancave?sort=6
Still got a few left if, you want them PM me.
Bob
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Maker ,
The collet slides some 3 inches from point to point on a keyed steel rod to transmit the drive depending on which position the engaging lever is set ... acw, neutral or cw .
That wasn't shown in the print as I can easily add one to the rubber form I cast the wax in . But thanks for the idea anyway .
I think I might have finally managed to get it sorted for printing via a memory card ... if it's a bit cooler tomorrow I might see if the results of my picking peoples brains and me struggling to update the printer and use Prusa's dedicated Cura version will work .
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It's a Sphere F10 circa 1943 built to the war departments requirement's it has 3 inch taper roller bearings the head stock spindle . It does not matter that the change gears are monkey metal it's the amount of lubrication and maintenance you do to them that matters . They were used by the Royal Navy boffins for torpedo development as they are a very good precision fine thread cutting lathe .
I'm the third owner of the lathe the other two were father & son both who were torpedo development officers .
I don't know where you got your information on built to the war department requirements as they were a copy of the prewar Atlas lathe an American lathe. Also they were never a high precision lathe. They had such a bad reputation any discussion of them and their clones was banned on the Practical Machinist forum the largest machining forum in the world as their reputation amongst machinist was so bad. But any lathe is better than no lathe at all.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/atlas/page9.html
http://www.lathes.co.uk/atlas/page9.html
