Lathe gearbox diagram. Lathe gear box oil upgrade doubleboost. Number of steps rquired are 12 and drive is from a 3 kw motor running at 1440 rpm. In this post we will discuss the lathe machine its main parts working principle operations advantages and disadvantages with diagram and video tutorial. Controls the movement of the carriage using levers.
The removal of material from metal is called machining and the process usually happens in a machine shop that has special equipment. Solenoid troubleshooting guide. The gearbox should shift and the hi gear and low gear bits on the diagnostic page should change state. 8 draw the ray diagram and kinematic layout of a gearbox for completely geared headstock of a lathe.
Parts of lathe machine headstock. If the gearbox shifts refer to these troubleshooting guides for the high and low gear solenoids and the io pcb. It took a little over 10 years for a screwcutting and feeds gearbox to become available as an option for the atlas lathe but when it was introduced in 1947 it was also offered as complete conversion kit to for retro fitting to earlier lathe both those with 34 and 58 diameter leadscrews. Figure 5 when the lathe is off oil should be visible at all times in the gearbox oil sight window.
When you machine different materials even if the geometry of the job is similar you would gen. A lathe is a machine tool which is used to rotate a workpiece to perform various operations such as turning facing knurling grooving etc with the help of tools that are applied to the workpiece. Can be used in place of tailstock or in the middle to support long or unstable parts being machined. Quick change gearbox.
Ngc io pcb troubleshooting guide. Clamped to the lathe ways it uses adjustable fingers to contact the workpiece and align it. The use of gears in most of the equipment gives you control over torque speed and synchronisation and their use in a lathe machine is no exception. Gears in the gearbox are splash lubricated from an oil tank that is part of the gearbox.
An oil sight window is typically situated on the front or side face of the gearbox figure 5. The headstock is fixed on the machine and it consists of many pulleys lever spindle chuck and gear box. The range of speeds should be from 600 to 23 rpm respectively.