Re: Lathe Hexapod

[Brian Pitt <bfp-at-earthlink.net>]

> Lay two legs of the cage down, with a big hole in the bottom to drop the
> chips through?  

or mount the tools pointing outwards(or forwards for drills) from the ring
and 'wobble' the platform around the centerline for short chucking work

> I thought maybe it could be a cheap way of building a CNC lathe.  No cast
> iron to scrape, no linear ways to align.  Put it together, don't worry
> about alignment, cut a test part, measure the part, input measurements into
> control- then cut the rest of the parts perfect....?

being able to lock the main spindle and do some milling with live tools on
the platform realy opens up the posibiitys for lathe work as well (no more
2nd opps  :-)  )

I like the basic idea  ,its got me thinking of what problems might pop up and 
trying to imagine the simplest ways to solve them
I'm sure there are probably several ways to make it work

Brian