[krazatchu]

Hi...

I need some help differentiating between a live tooling lathe or a mill with a c-axis...

my company is going to be producing some helix like parts, made of polyurethane, possibly peek and possibly stainless later...

I'm looking to save some cost so it will be a conversion job of a manual machine...

Anyhoo... I guess my main concern is if its ok to attach live tooling onto a manual lathe... if it might damage the tool holder.... etc etc...

I know my question is rather vague... hoping someone has some experience with this...

My other choice would be a mill with a c axis... however there's a few things i could do with the lathe like boring etc that would be handy...

Thanks...

Michael

[joecnc1234]

How are you going to position the spindle?? What you are saying doesn't make any sense to me. a axis rotates around x, b axis rotates around y, c axis rotates around z. so what is the point of rotating around z on a mill unless you have some crazy cutters??? c axis rotates around c/l of z with movement in x to simplify milling on a lathe. any other use is unbeknown to me, unless you have multiple spindles???

[krazatchu]

hi...

right... a-axis is around the x... thats what i meant, around the spindle

some of the cam programs I've used state that the c-axis is around x, others call it a...

Anyhoo... Im curious about the stability of the toolpost when used with live tooling, on a typical lathe... something with at least 18" of travel

thx,
Michael