Hey All!
I landed on this forum after searching the net for information regarding a Lux cut manual lathe that I've recently acquired. I'm a fulltime beekeeper, with a small commercial operation in southern Alberta (south of High River). Typical of farmers, you get to dabble in many different trades to try and save a buck here and there as well as problem solve whatever the season throws at you. Earlier this year I bought a 3d printer and started to design a machine that could save time cutting up cleaning pads (6x8") into 1" strips that we use to soak up a batch of glycerine & oxalic acid for mite treatments inside each hive. The machine used 6 rotary knife blades for which I needed to machine custom arbors/hubs for.. I was given a brief lesson on how to use the lathe to machine these hubs out of aluminum from an old mechanic and then proceeded to make something that would eventually work. Long story short, it performed much better than expected and all the commercial guys want one! I don't really like the hub setup I have though, so I want to machine a shaft to the size of the hole on the blade/s, along with blade spacers and an arbor nut so that they can be stacked and the users don't need to dial in the spacing between blades (each operation might have a different size requirement).
I landed on this forum after searching the net for information regarding a Lux cut manual lathe that I've recently acquired. I'm a fulltime beekeeper, with a small commercial operation in southern Alberta (south of High River). Typical of farmers, you get to dabble in many different trades to try and save a buck here and there as well as problem solve whatever the season throws at you. Earlier this year I bought a 3d printer and started to design a machine that could save time cutting up cleaning pads (6x8") into 1" strips that we use to soak up a batch of glycerine & oxalic acid for mite treatments inside each hive. The machine used 6 rotary knife blades for which I needed to machine custom arbors/hubs for.. I was given a brief lesson on how to use the lathe to machine these hubs out of aluminum from an old mechanic and then proceeded to make something that would eventually work. Long story short, it performed much better than expected and all the commercial guys want one! I don't really like the hub setup I have though, so I want to machine a shaft to the size of the hole on the blade/s, along with blade spacers and an arbor nut so that they can be stacked and the users don't need to dial in the spacing between blades (each operation might have a different size requirement).
