I thought some of you might be interested in this. Maybe not or maybe so. LOL

I wish I were taking vacation time off that I have to use and working on my race car but this has kept me really busy at work.

Ever seen a $205,000 keychain?



I have a new lathe. Dual spindle with live tooling. 8" main, 5" sub, 2 1/2" through hole, 20hp DNS Solutions 2100LSMB Lynx. Also the wrapped unit in the pics is a Universal brand cobot for lights out operation. Still waiting on my LNS Quick Load Servo 80+ bar feeder to get here. All this will allow me to feed raw bar into the machine and completely finished parts will be unloaded. Many of our parts would have 2 lathe operations and 1 or 2 mill ops that this will do itself. More work with less people.











Should have it up and running next week.

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Nice!! Years ago I was a Maintenance manager for a company that made rubber bonded to metal shaft rollers that went into printer cartridges. All our cnc lathes were magazine bar fed. Once they are loaded and running the operator just sits there and read magazines and check a part every now and then, back then there was no cell phones or internet

I have 2 other lathes with bar feeders but they don't have live tooling. They also run unattended but a guy does have to empty the parts catcher occasionally.

This new lathe when we aren't using the cobot it has a parts catcher-conveyor that will move the finished parts to a larger container.

This makes my 8th cnc machine in the shop.

Y’all are toolin up!
Very cool!

Well done!

You suck and meant most jealous way possible,.

Good looking machine.

Very nice, the stuff those things can do is amazing.

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Originally posted by wideopen231:
You suck and meant most jealous way possible,.

Good looking machine.

I knew what you meant. LOL

Thanks. I'm excited to get it running.

This weeks project was this. Same size and shape as our regular brass plumb bob but made of aluminum, anodized blue and the logo, grads and numbers are done with my laser. It makes them white, they aren't painted. We are going to make a bunch for the company shown to give away as gifts.





The laser has been fun to figure out how to run the software and get what you want from it.

We are getting there. Bar feeder is supposed to be installed Monday. This was my last week. I hope this shows up okay.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WWW...?si=JzrJFOLYgGFIxOHX

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It shows up nice. Beautiful work!

Curtis That is some awesome equipment , I would be like a kid in a candy store.
Congratulations !