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Data Plate Mod

opensourcefan

opensourcefan

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Hey, I thought I would show off my data plate for my 8x16 lathe. I have a family contact that was able to UV print it on metal of some sort. Looks awesome I think and best of all it's dedicated to my machine and gear set. I believe they're looking at printing custom UV printed vinyl sheets to be applied to anything anyone chooses. Printing directly on metal is a pain and the proper old school silk screen style is even worse.

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After all the tweaking it's accomplished everything I've needed it to do, so far. Nothing really lengthy though, which is where I suspect my head alignment issue will show itself.

My biggest day to day complaint is how long the control board takes to catch up under load. I lose quite a bit of RPM waiting, not sure if I'm going to replace it or get another lathe.

It's "good enough" for the time being but I wish I got a better quality 10x22 or something vintage.
 
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