New Lathe and Pics of Current Project

[japcas]

Well, I bought a bigger lathe back in November and am just now getting around to trying it out and I really like it so far. It is a Jet BDB1340 13x40. It is belt driven, 2hp 220 volt motor. I like the belt drive and it's not hard to change speeds. I picked it because it had more speeds in a more usable speed range for the kind of parts I machine. I am also posting pics of the chip deflector I built out of pvc and sign board to keep chips off of my wifes car. It is attached with conduit clamps and can be lifted out to access the back of the lathe bed if need be. Also posting pics of the engine I have been working on. It is Rudy's Pioneer 2 stroke. It is 1.125 bore and 1.5 stroke. I wanted to have it done to take to Cabin Fever but I'm not going to have time to finish it but I am still going to check out the great models that others have built.














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[Al Messer]

Nice looking lathe and I really do like your idea about a chip deflector.

[Al Messer]

P.S. That is a very good looking job on the engine.

[rsr911]

Everything looks really nice, I like the chip guard but how do you plan to keep the chips from melting it? When I've got the feed jsut right on my big lathe most of the heavy blue "clinky" chips just fall into the chip pans, the ones that don't would melt right through that PVC.

I just love bigger machines, since I've gotten aquainted with my 20" I rarely use the little 10" Logan anymore.

Love the engine as well, beautiful workmanship. I hope to have the time to do something like that someday. Right now may machine tools need to make money to feed my car hobby and pay some bills at home.

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-Christian D. Sokolowski

[Buckshot]

........Japcas, not to take anything away from what you did for a chipshield, but offered only as an idea.

I built a backer out of 1x1 steel tube and clamped it to the back of the cabinet of my 11" Logan, as below:



To the uprights I techscrewed simple shelf standards. I used vinyl coated wire racks as shelves. These are handy as at the tailstock end, the MT adaptor on the drill chucks hang down between the wire.I no longer have them taking up space in the toolbox. At the headstock end I have the chuck keys stuck through the wire. They're hanging right there handy to the chuck and out of the way.


I don't think this will work for your cabinet. Mine has a very deep chipwell under the bed and it would be heavy and unwieldy to haul out and dump. So I made this 'sub tray' that clips on the back of the well. When the photo was taken I hadn't fabed up the square tube shelf deal.

The sub tray deal lifts up a bit, tilt it forward slightly and then take it out. Easy to carry to the trash and dump.

Rick

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[japcas]

Thanks for the suggestions. I am not to worried about the sign board burning through, and if it does it is easily replaced. I'm definitely not worried about the pvc pipe. I wouldn't even begin to try this setup at work, because I would probably set the shield on fire. At work I usually crank up the depth of cut and the feedrate and let the chips and coolant fly where they want to, and we have a cleanup guy to sweep the floor. Here at home, I am the cleanup guy. I work here at home for fun, at a leisurely pace, not balls to the wall. I wouldn't have gotten these machines if I had to run them like that all the time. I don't mind if it takes a little longer here at home. Yeah, my projects are slow getting done, but I have fun all the while, and if I get rushed it takes the fun out of it, and I want it to be fun so I don't get burned out on it to the point that I don't want to do it for a living, and I do enjoy my job.