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Equipment => Bats => Bat Making => Topic started by: Perkins17 on May 26, 2011, 05:30:08 PM

Title: Home Made Lathe
Post by: Perkins17 on May 26, 2011, 05:30:08 PM: Evening all
Finished work and all day I have been thinking that seeing as though its payday i would try to made a lathe for my shed to help when making bats to stop the 30 mins plus of binding >:(
I think CustomDan made something similar a while ago
So my question to everyone who can help what will I Need :-[
I was thinking of of using the sides of the shed which is 147 cm across
does anyone know what parts of a lathe I would need to screw in the walls

Cheers
Title: Re: Home Made Lathe
Post by: Bez013 on May 30, 2011, 04:20:46 PM: I've also been thinking about this problem.

Don't you just need something to power the bat turning at one end and a free spinning point at the other end? I've thought about rigging something up to use a bicycle freewheel for the free spinning end and using the bicycle drive train train to turn the bat by hand, not perhaps the solution you are looking for but pretty cheap.
Title: Re: Home Made Lathe
Post by: RossViper on June 02, 2011, 10:07:53 AM: I don't even think it needs to be powered, i saw a video once of a Indian factory where they just spun it round by hand, they just span the bat! It looked much better than doing it all by hand. A few bits of wood and 2 decent bearings of some sort I think would do it.

My next project is a bat knocking in machine, maybe after that!

Ross
Title: Re: Home Made Lathe
Post by: tim2000s on June 02, 2011, 10:22:43 AM: Quote from: RossViper on June 02, 2011, 10:07:53 AM
I don't even think it needs to be powered, i saw a video once of a Indian factory where they just spun it round by hand, they just span the bat! It looked much better than doing it all by hand. A few bits of wood and 2 decent bearings of some sort I think would do it.

My next project is a bat knocking in machine, maybe after that!

Ross
Agree with Ross. All you really need is something to allow it to spin freely. If it's not being used to turn a piece of wood then binding requires no power.
Title: Re: Home Made Lathe
Post by: Red Ink Cricket on June 02, 2011, 10:29:23 AM: you can pick up an old drill lathe on ebay pretty cheap and use the points off that. just needs a bit of modifciation as most are shorter in length that you need. ive just bolted mine to a wooden board and have one moveable to adjust for bat lenghts.
Title: Re: Home Made Lathe
Post by: RossViper on June 02, 2011, 04:07:42 PM: Here is Nixon's one, it's towards the end but you can see him turning it by hand!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCY0mu6H6c