cnc lathe

I began work on my cnc lathe. I had to completely dismantle so I could drill and thread the various connection points for the z axis balls screw mount and the x axis mount. This seemed like a good time to clean off all of the thick cosmoline that was coating all of the exposed steel parts. The saddle had to be drilled and tapped on the back side to accept the x axis mount and then I decided to mill the slot so I could achieve more travel in the x. I followed that work up, by drilling and threading four holes in the end of the  lathe bed for the z-axis mount. Once this was completed I started reassembly with the steppers and such. I have everything hooked up now and even cut some simple stuff using a Machturn wizard. I'll soon try to post some video of it moving and cutting and some more pics of the complete assembled lathe. I'm working on learning some CAM software for writing geode for the lathe. I've been playing with Virtual Turn and I'm going to try out SprutCAM for this in the near future. Stay tuned...