It’s super cool if he wants to make it longer for something later he could easily just make a second or third cover with a flat coming down on the cross slide side. It’s then just a modular cover that’s easy to extend by hand.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter Yeah I was speculating myself on how to solve this problem but couldn't think of anything without annoying compromises. Then you brought out the magnets and I felt stupid. Absolutely genius!
That is absolutely incredible. I definitely want to make those for my mill and lathe. Even though felt is typically used for oil retention and generally is installed with a rubber wiper in front of it, I think the fact that it only uses felt is better because you only have to replace the wipers every couple years depending on use and I've found on our industrial machines that even 2 years of time is enough that the way wiper manufacturer no longer makes the wipers your machine needs and you are ship out of luck on getting new ones leaving your machine to just slowly collect more and more chips. With adhesive backed felt they have been making it for the past 50 years at the bare minimum and you'll be able to replace it later on down the line when they wear out! I have seen it so many times on our industrial CNCs that the wipers will wear out and they no longer sell replacements and instead of protecting the ways or linear rails from chips, it just hides them under where you can't see and slowly destroys your machine without you knowing. I am 100% sold! I shall start designing some now!
Take a cheapest paint brush that fits your bedways,cut handle off and cut bristles to match bedway shape.Mount brush to lathe carriage with L brackets and you are done.Put those infront of wipers and wipers will last years .
Brilliant idea! You did a fine job constructing the bedway cover. I might build something like this for my mini lathe. Thank you for sharing this project.
I knew that it will be a melticulously engineered project, when you threw the garbage press brake back to its box and got another press brake just for the sake of continuing the project. And yes, I was correct, everything was DYI, perfectly machined and crafted. Well done!
Well done, very nice upgrade for your machine. That cheap press brake was hilarious, I've not seen one that bad before - you were right to send it back.
Very nice! I tried something similar several years ago for a larger milling machine. It took several tries to get it right. I ended up spot welding pieces together because of the distortion the tig welding caused. Had I watched your video before it would have been much easier and saved me tons of time. Where were you 4 years ago when I needed it! Great video.
I was thinking of adding something like this to my EMCO Compact 5 (manual) lathe, but was struggling with some of the details. Thanks for showing me how it's done.
Magnificently executed sheetmetal work with billet machining precision on the fasteners. 3 small suggestions. Use a flat top to minimise the loss of radial clearance. OR 6 break away magnets on the right hand side to allow removal when larger diameter part needs to be machined I was watching with the sound off so not sure if I missed it but many other owners would be happy to have your dimensions to recreate the same or similar covers though improvements in this style of design would be hard to achieve. Thank you for taking the time to document the process so well.
Nicely done! I'm facing the same challenge on a CNC mill conversion, where, like you, I don't want the cover getting caught in any spinny bits. I really liked the adhesive felt strips idea. They solve guiding as well as sealing elegantly, hopefully without scratching the covers up too badly.
Thank you very much for your comment! The felt strips have proven to be the best material. Rubber or something has to much resistance in my experience.
Nice Job. I have spent many hours working on this type of slide way cover on full size CNC machines. Many times I have arrived at work to find covers like these folded up , bent and poking out of machines in inappropriate spots. Mostly due to 40 meter rapid travis speeds and lazy operators who have walked on them bending them just enough to catch and cause a problem. Admittedly these were much larger and run at higher speeds but its all the same in principal. There is a real art in getting the drag just right so they expand and contract evenly at any velocity.
Fantastic job, well done! Instead of brazing stainless steel i suggest you try spot welding it. You can buy a spot welder or do what i did and remove the transformer from an old microwave, cut out the secondary windongs and wrap a couple of looks of welding wire through it and make a clamping mechanism to fix some rods to and connect the wire. I made one to spot weld two haves of a heart together for our wedding. Worked perfectly on stainless ateel. Not ao much on any other metals
love it! my only concern would be how well the felt+adhesive will hold up over time. might want to add those stopping screws in the other direction as well, so you're not relying on the adhesive so much
I'm wondering if the felt does fail.... Maybe the felt could be replaced with the same thickness strips of brass drilled, tapped, then screw the strips into each section. Coat the tiny brass screws with JB weld. Maybe just use JB weld and clamps instead of screws. The strips might only need to be on the top surfaces, not wrapped around like you have the felt. It would still keep 99+% of material off the ways. Very impressive thinking and workmanship 👍 @@WeCanDoThatBetter
Haa haaaa hhaaaaa, that carpenters rule! Seriously though, what a fantastic cover, getting those individual elements to fit together so well takes some skill. I can never get bent metal to work correctly. A brilliant bed cover.
Thank you very much for your comment! I really didn't like sheet metal work that much as you never know exactly how the bends will end up. But fortunately I managed to get 6 elements with more or less right dimensions. But I made quite some more while testing and prooving the design.
I,ve been thinking of one of these for a while now, you just motivated me to make my own, very nice work keep the projects coming, Subscribed and liked.
Thank you! A pan under the cutter will collect most of the chips. On a manual machine I wouldn't put that much effort into building a cover but here I thought I should :)
Very nice build! I would like to suggest that there are soldering compounds that let you tin solder stainless steel and other metals, also with different metals. It doesn't have a great strength but it works to hold two plates together :)
Beautiful work! Your implementation of the telescoping covers was awesome. I've filed that one away for later! I made the mistake of learning TIG welding on thin stainless steel. Well maybe not mistake as I learned a crap ton, but it sure wasn't easy. :) You won't get a result you will like with any type of flame soldering/welding or MIG. You need a TIG machine for the thicknesses you're working with. You also need chill blocks. The goal is to put heat in hot and quickly and remove it as quickly as possible. Clamp chunks of aluminum or copper near the weld to draw the heat away fast. I ended up machining fixtures for clamping corners that had a bunch of holes for back purging the corner joint.
That is really nice. Well done. I am sure you will get soldering perfect one day. I worry about the glue, but I think it will survive quite a bit of time. Just make sure to inspect it from time to time. I think the industrial covers usually use a spot welded profile sections to hold a rubber wiper seal.
Very interesting project and nicely executed. I would like to see a follow up demonstrating how well the protectors keep the chips at bay. Although you only talk about protecting the ways it should also be very beneficial in protecting the lead screw and carriage drive shaft.
Very elegant! This inspires me to make an attempt at metal way covers! You made it look so easy! And the magnetic attachment is genius! I will mention on my Emco Compact 5, it's easy to hit the tool on the carriage when indexing the turret if the sticks out too much so your method for attaching the cover to the carriage does sacrifice a tiny bit of tool length. I feel like I've wanted an extra 0.040".
A trick I use when bending, put an angle finder on the over hang. Then, if you want a specific angle, you can bend to half the angle as measured by the finder.
Clean ! Just lets hope it wont disturb or interfere with the surface finish . not sure how strong your spindle motors are to balance that out . but knowing the C5 size...this would be the first thing that comes to my mind. realy well done
Thanks! You mean the cover will cause a bad surface finish? I don't think so. There is very little resistance in the cover, so not much force is needed to fold it. The steppers are astonishingly strong.
Thank you very much for the comment and the hint. I looked it up. Pretty interesting. I haven't known his channel and this proejct. Thanks for showing me.
This is the kind of brilliantly over-engineered perfection we have come to expect from WCDTB 😃 If I was to be REALLY picky could elements 1-2 do with a bit of clearance to stop chips getting pushed against the head stick and fouling the action? It's still more than 10/10 though 👍
Nicely done! But, as I am thinking, I would have tried put the slide guard the other way around. The tallest piece under the chuck! Thanks for sharing!
@@WeCanDoThatBetter No benefit machining small parts. But you can machine a part with a little bit larger circumference near your cutting tool by rotate it. Excellent performed and a great thought out upgrade! Thank you!
Thank you very much for your comment! The felt strip is about 1mm thick so I added to each position of the bend 1mm +0,5mm which is the thickness of the sheet metal.
That's a very nicely designed and made way cover sir! The only drawback I can see is the self adhesive felt. And it's the self adhesive element I can foresee a problem with.. any oil getting on to the covers will be drawn into the felt and the oil will very quickly degrade the adhesive. I would change that for felt glued separately, with either a good quality epoxy resin or cyano-acrylate ( ie superglue)
I think the usual gripe about smaller CNC like Tormach is their slower speed, but the reality is this is practical anywhere including small apartment which unfortunately is the living condition of many. So, I wonder if the motors/steppers/servos can be maxxed out...
For me this machine is sufficient at the moment. Don't need the highest speed. It's more about accuracy and surface finish what concerns me. Tests will tell how well this machine does.
great work! you don't see much of those covers on youtube mainly for two reasons: 1. nowadays most machines which need covers are small CNCs with not much space on axis so accordeon covers are better. 2. most of machines which really needs metal sheet way covers are already have them by default.
They look great but will not hold up once they get used. I have repaired, made and sent some to be rebuilt from manufacturers many times. The felt you have in there needs to be replaced with steel strips resistance welded, most have seals on the face and are manufactured with it. At the back of each cover should be a steel bulkhead cut out to match the ways. At the bottom and top of each bulkhead Delrin is used to support it and slide on the ways and support the next cover. Hope this helps.
Hi and thanks for your detailed comment! In harsh industrial environment my way cover would not last that long I guess. I had to make compromises regarding the size and how complicated it is to make. As I have very little space on my machine I had to make that thing as compact as possible. That's why I came up with the small felt strips. I will see how well it works when in use. But thanks for your hints.
Very tidy job.👍 It might be best to flip the sliding way protectors the other way around, as you'd lose less swing over the protectors when the tool carrier/capstan is close to the spindle nose. Yes I know it's a small machine, but when you need to make a funky flywheel or large diameter spur gear with the lathe as an indexer...? 👍
Damn, after watching you and inheritance machining do sheet metal work using manual tools, I'm a lot more appreciative of the hydraulic guillotine, cnc press brakes and big slip roll I have at work 😅
great job indeed. do you planning to make second one on the right side of the lathe? I ashame to tell, but I'm using an old sock to cover my small milling machine slides. 😢 After this video I definitely need to change it.
Thank you very much! I think such a cover on the right side of the carriage is not necessary. The majority of the chips are on the left side. On the right side there is also the tailstock which would interfere. I will istall way wipers on the right side of the carriage. That is probably sufficient. Cool idea with the sock :D Why not, sounds simple and effective :)
Also, have you thought of using regular pop rivets instead? I feel like the bolts will come loose. There might even be small clothe rivets that look nice
Nice job. I was wondering how this works with tiny chips that get caught between the headstock and the way covers when it closes? Do u have to leave a gap.. say 2-3 mm if running the machine unattended so it got some compaction space until it's been (manually) cleaned?
Thanks! Yes, a scissor mechanism is the ultimate way to go. On industrial way covers this is standard. But I have no idea how I could have implemented this. Was complicated enough so far :)
Genius. Way better than an accordian!!
Thank you very much. Yes, I think it is way more convenient.
Yeah....No Music too !!!
Very nicely done sir. Looks like a factory component. The magnetic ' break-away ' was the perfect solution. Keep up the great work!!
It’s super cool if he wants to make it longer for something later he could easily just make a second or third cover with a flat coming down on the cross slide side. It’s then just a modular cover that’s easy to extend by hand.
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
@@WeCanDoThatBetter Yeah I was speculating myself on how to solve this problem but couldn't think of anything without annoying compromises. Then you brought out the magnets and I felt stupid. Absolutely genius!
My opinion of a teacher always goes up greatly when they demonstrate their failures. The end result is something to be proud of!
Thanks for you comment! Yes it was a rough way here. But if the endresult pays off, everything is fine.
The magnetic attachment so it can pull free for extended travel is a great idea!
Thanks! I didn't want to risk destroying the whole thing accidentally :)
indeed. When I saw this idea i was impressed. simple, smart, and 146% efficient.
I think about accordian way cover for my lathe. Now i got inspiration from one of the best UA-cam lathe Improver. Big thanks 👍🏻
I'm humbled! Thank you very much. I really do appreciate that!
@@WeCanDoThatBetter Excellent work my man.
That is absolutely incredible. I definitely want to make those for my mill and lathe. Even though felt is typically used for oil retention and generally is installed with a rubber wiper in front of it, I think the fact that it only uses felt is better because you only have to replace the wipers every couple years depending on use and I've found on our industrial machines that even 2 years of time is enough that the way wiper manufacturer no longer makes the wipers your machine needs and you are ship out of luck on getting new ones leaving your machine to just slowly collect more and more chips. With adhesive backed felt they have been making it for the past 50 years at the bare minimum and you'll be able to replace it later on down the line when they wear out! I have seen it so many times on our industrial CNCs that the wipers will wear out and they no longer sell replacements and instead of protecting the ways or linear rails from chips, it just hides them under where you can't see and slowly destroys your machine without you knowing. I am 100% sold! I shall start designing some now!
I wonder if using coolant the adhesive would come unstuck.
Take a cheapest paint brush that fits your bedways,cut handle off and cut bristles to match bedway shape.Mount brush to lathe carriage with L brackets and you are done.Put those infront of wipers and wipers will last years .
just buy 10-20 extra sets of wipers when you buy the machine, then you won't have this problem.
Brilliant idea! You did a fine job constructing the bedway cover. I might build something like this for my mini lathe. Thank you for sharing this project.
Thank you very much for your kind comment and feedback! I really do appreciate that. Good luck for your project.
I knew that it will be a melticulously engineered project, when you threw the garbage press brake back to its box and got another press brake just for the sake of continuing the project. And yes, I was correct, everything was DYI, perfectly machined and crafted. Well done!
Thank you very much for your kind words!
What a brilliant solution to a common problem and masterfully executed. Congratulations!
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
I've been looking for this build my entire time to finish up my diy cnc machine and now I found it..Thanks
Absolutely brilliant! Better than any diy way cover I have ever seen before.
Thanks a lot!
Well done, very nice upgrade for your machine. That cheap press brake was hilarious, I've not seen one that bad before - you were right to send it back.
Very nice! I tried something similar several years ago for a larger milling machine. It took several tries to get it right. I ended up spot welding pieces together because of the distortion the tig welding caused. Had I watched your video before it would have been much easier and saved me tons of time. Where were you 4 years ago when I needed it! Great video.
It might be the best work I've ever seen
I'm humbled! Thank you very much!!
Impressively accurate folding and a great product review !
Thank you very much!
You have done what every lathe needs 100 percent. Good job. I liked it. Thank you. Good luck to you.
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
The intro shots are a peak of satisfying machining content :D Beauty!
Thank you very much!
I was thinking of adding something like this to my EMCO Compact 5 (manual) lathe, but was struggling with some of the details. Thanks for showing me how it's done.
Thanks for your comment!
Magnificently executed sheetmetal work with billet machining precision on the fasteners.
3 small suggestions.
Use a flat top to minimise the loss of radial clearance.
OR
6 break away magnets on the right hand side to allow removal when larger diameter part needs to be machined
I was watching with the sound off so not sure if I missed it but many other owners would be happy to have your dimensions to recreate the same or similar covers though improvements in this style of design would be hard to achieve.
Thank you for taking the time to document the process so well.
Thanks man! I used your method to cover my X axis on my fixed gantry CNC router. Works incredibly well!!! Now it is time to cover Y axis.
Nicely done! I'm facing the same challenge on a CNC mill conversion, where, like you, I don't want the cover getting caught in any spinny bits. I really liked the adhesive felt strips idea. They solve guiding as well as sealing elegantly, hopefully without scratching the covers up too badly.
Thank you very much for your comment! The felt strips have proven to be the best material. Rubber or something has to much resistance in my experience.
Nice Job. I have spent many hours working on this type of slide way cover on full size CNC machines.
Many times I have arrived at work to find covers like these folded up , bent and poking out of machines in inappropriate spots. Mostly due to 40 meter rapid travis speeds and lazy operators who have walked on them bending them just enough to catch and cause a problem. Admittedly these were much larger and run at higher speeds but its all the same in principal. There is a real art in getting the drag just right so they expand and contract evenly at any velocity.
I thought they had an accordion folding 'steel' lattice underneath to achieve evenness?
Напоминает рыцарскую латную рукавицу времён средневековья.На станке с ЧПУ выглядит очень футуристично.Прекрасная работа.
Fantastic job, well done! Instead of brazing stainless steel i suggest you try spot welding it. You can buy a spot welder or do what i did and remove the transformer from an old microwave, cut out the secondary windongs and wrap a couple of looks of welding wire through it and make a clamping mechanism to fix some rods to and connect the wire. I made one to spot weld two haves of a heart together for our wedding. Worked perfectly on stainless ateel. Not ao much on any other metals
As usual you do great work, great design and looks cool.
I always look forward to your videos. I learn a lot from your work.
Thank you very much for your kind feedback! I really do appreciate that!
Super great work!! I’m a huge nerd for sheet metal work! When done right sheet metal is the best!
love it! my only concern would be how well the felt+adhesive will hold up over time.
might want to add those stopping screws in the other direction as well, so you're not relying on the adhesive so much
We will see how well it hold up. I'm hoping the best.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter thin oil is a pretty good solvent for this type sticker glue, i suspect it will depend on your cutting fluid
I'm wondering if the felt does fail.... Maybe the felt could be replaced with the same thickness strips of brass drilled, tapped, then screw the strips into each section. Coat the tiny brass screws with JB weld. Maybe just use JB weld and clamps instead of screws.
The strips might only need to be on the top surfaces, not wrapped around like you have the felt. It would still keep 99+% of material off the ways.
Very impressive thinking and workmanship 👍
@@WeCanDoThatBetter
Haa haaaa hhaaaaa, that carpenters rule!
Seriously though, what a fantastic cover, getting those individual elements to fit together so well takes some skill. I can never get bent metal to work correctly. A brilliant bed cover.
Thank you very much for your comment! I really didn't like sheet metal work that much as you never know exactly how the bends will end up. But fortunately I managed to get 6 elements with more or less right dimensions. But I made quite some more while testing and prooving the design.
Great solution for a way better look! Might incorporate your techniques for a way cover on my Bridgeport. Thank you!
Thank you very much and good luck for your project!
I,ve been thinking of one of these for a while now, you just motivated me to make my own, very nice work keep the projects coming, Subscribed and liked.
Thank you very much for your kind comment and your support! I really do appreciate that!
Hello. Congratulations. Very good result, I hope the felt or gasket does its job.
Thanks! Time will tell how well it works.
Looks great. A lot of work. I made a pan attached to my slide. The pan is always under cutter.
Thank you! A pan under the cutter will collect most of the chips. On a manual machine I wouldn't put that much effort into building a cover but here I thought I should :)
Great work, as always. I like how neatly designed and constructed it is, very well done!
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that!
Very nice build! I would like to suggest that there are soldering compounds that let you tin solder stainless steel and other metals, also with different metals. It doesn't have a great strength but it works to hold two plates together :)
That sounds interesting. Thanks for the hint. It would have been probably strong enough.
That looks awesome. Professional results. Well done, well don. 👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much!
Very nice build, and a nice adventure in misadventure with the soldering bit. It does look like it could have came with the lathe.
Thanks a lot for your kind words!
Beautiful work! Your implementation of the telescoping covers was awesome. I've filed that one away for later!
I made the mistake of learning TIG welding on thin stainless steel. Well maybe not mistake as I learned a crap ton, but it sure wasn't easy. :) You won't get a result you will like with any type of flame soldering/welding or MIG. You need a TIG machine for the thicknesses you're working with. You also need chill blocks. The goal is to put heat in hot and quickly and remove it as quickly as possible. Clamp chunks of aluminum or copper near the weld to draw the heat away fast. I ended up machining fixtures for clamping corners that had a bunch of holes for back purging the corner joint.
That is really nice. Well done. I am sure you will get soldering perfect one day.
I worry about the glue, but I think it will survive quite a bit of time. Just make sure to inspect it from time to time. I think the industrial covers usually use a spot welded profile sections to hold a rubber wiper seal.
Hope the felt adhesive and tolerances serve you well. Very nice build.
Thanks!
Hi from South Africa Brilliant design and beautiful fabrication
Thank you very much for your kind comment! I really do appreciate that.
Very interesting project and nicely executed. I would like to see a follow up demonstrating how well the protectors keep the chips at bay. Although you only talk about protecting the ways it should also be very beneficial in protecting the lead screw and carriage drive shaft.
I think in following videos you will see how well it works with chips.
Very elegant! This inspires me to make an attempt at metal way covers! You made it look so easy! And the magnetic attachment is genius!
I will mention on my Emco Compact 5, it's easy to hit the tool on the carriage when indexing the turret if the sticks out too much so your method for attaching the cover to the carriage does sacrifice a tiny bit of tool length. I feel like I've wanted an extra 0.040".
Super cool modification. Like an Armadillo!
Thanks!
A trick I use when bending, put an angle finder on the over hang. Then, if you want a specific angle, you can bend to half the angle as measured by the finder.
Thanks!
what an incredibly well executed project!
The use of felt and boltheads for locking and alignment is brilliant. Most professional covers are far more complicated.
Thanks for your comment! I tried to keep it as simple as possible. But still a lot of work and trial and error to get it finally to work.
They make flux specifically for soldering stainless steel. It works very well and you need less heat to get the silver solder to flow.
That's good to know. Thanks.
Clean ! Just lets hope it wont disturb or interfere with the surface finish . not sure how strong your spindle motors are to balance that out . but knowing the C5 size...this would be the first thing that comes to my mind. realy well done
Thanks! You mean the cover will cause a bad surface finish? I don't think so. There is very little resistance in the cover, so not much force is needed to fold it. The steppers are astonishingly strong.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter ok that was my only concern! but if u say sop...it should be fine. how is G code Learning going so far :) ?
What a satisfying mechanism and build
Thanks!
That looks so nice and professional!
Thank you very much!
Attila in the Shed did a version of this for his bench lathe. Less bends and thicker aluminium sheet metal, worth comparing notes.
Thank you very much for the comment and the hint. I looked it up. Pretty interesting. I haven't known his channel and this proejct. Thanks for showing me.
Awesome job, keep up the good work. Greets from Eastern Canada ✌
Looks awesome! I hope it proves to work just as well as it looks.
Thanks! I has to prove on the long term. Until now it seems to work quite perfect.
awesome, ive seen high end machines with the same type of cover. just amazing.
Thanks! Yes, this type is standard on professional machines. Off course a little bit more sofisticated.
This is the kind of brilliantly over-engineered perfection we have come to expect from WCDTB 😃
If I was to be REALLY picky could elements 1-2 do with a bit of clearance to stop chips getting pushed against the head stick and fouling the action?
It's still more than 10/10 though 👍
Nicely done! But, as I am thinking, I would have tried put the slide guard the other way around. The tallest piece under the chuck! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your comment! Don't know if flipping it around would have some benefit.
@@WeCanDoThatBetter
No benefit machining small parts. But you can machine a part with a little bit larger circumference near your cutting tool by rotate it. Excellent performed and a great thought out upgrade! Thank you!
This was VERY interesting to me, I really appreciated the video.
How much larger/longer did you make each piece?
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much for your comment! The felt strip is about 1mm thick so I added to each position of the bend 1mm +0,5mm which is the thickness of the sheet metal.
oh yeah, im here again sat nite watching. Thanks much.
Thanks!
Great design and manufacture! well done.
Thank you!
“Pretty good”?
I think it’s very good, great & professional!
Top notch work!
Thanks!
That's a very nicely designed and made way cover sir! The only drawback I can see is the self adhesive felt. And it's the self adhesive element I can foresee a problem with.. any oil getting on to the covers will be drawn into the felt and the oil will very quickly degrade the adhesive. I would change that for felt glued separately, with either a good quality epoxy resin or cyano-acrylate ( ie superglue)
Very cool, It reminds me of a scaled down version of an expanding aircraft hanger used for fire fire suppression ETC. Used at X locations.
Thanks! Interesting thought :)
Looks like it did come with it, great work.
Thank you!
Excellent job...looks professional like a large cnc lathe .
Awesome job you did there, but I wonder.. why soldier the last part? Wouldn't epoxy proof strong enough?
Thank you! Epoxy would have been probably strong enough but I felt better with soldering it. Now it is rock solid :)
Magnific work and idea! 👏👏👏
Thanks!
I think the usual gripe about smaller CNC like Tormach is their slower speed, but the reality is this is practical anywhere including small apartment which unfortunately is the living condition of many. So, I wonder if the motors/steppers/servos can be maxxed out...
For me this machine is sufficient at the moment. Don't need the highest speed. It's more about accuracy and surface finish what concerns me. Tests will tell how well this machine does.
great work!
you don't see much of those covers on youtube mainly for two reasons:
1. nowadays most machines which need covers are small CNCs with not much space on axis so accordeon covers are better.
2. most of machines which really needs metal sheet way covers are already have them by default.
Beautiful design and will be quit helpful for my tormach! Thanks for sharing.
Great exercise in iteration design. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Very nice project. This is why I am subscribed.
Thanks a lot!
They look great but will not hold up once they get used. I have repaired, made and sent some to be rebuilt from manufacturers many times. The felt you have in there needs to be replaced with steel strips resistance welded, most have seals on the face and are manufactured with it. At the back of each cover should be a steel bulkhead cut out to match the ways. At the bottom and top of each bulkhead Delrin is used to support it and slide on the ways and support the next cover. Hope this helps.
Hi and thanks for your detailed comment! In harsh industrial environment my way cover would not last that long I guess. I had to make compromises regarding the size and how complicated it is to make. As I have very little space on my machine I had to make that thing as compact as possible. That's why I came up with the small felt strips. I will see how well it works when in use. But thanks for your hints.
Very slick.Job well done!
Thanks!
Excellent solution !
finest craftmanship ever saw❤❤
Very tidy job.👍
It might be best to flip the sliding way protectors the other way around, as you'd lose less swing over the protectors when the tool carrier/capstan is close to the spindle nose.
Yes I know it's a small machine, but when you need to make a funky flywheel or large diameter spur gear with the lathe as an indexer...?
👍
Thanks for your comment! For now I will leave it as it is. Time will tell if this causes problems.
It looks fantastic impressive work!
Thank you very much!
Very very useful and nice, lathe looks a beauty.
Thanks for your compliment!
Nice job, looks like a part made by the original factory.
Thank you very much!
Looks awesome, I'm sure it will work great.
Thanks! So far it does :)
Отличная работа! Успехов в творчестве!
Damn, after watching you and inheritance machining do sheet metal work using manual tools, I'm a lot more appreciative of the hydraulic guillotine, cnc press brakes and big slip roll I have at work 😅
Oh yes. Would be great to have those machines ;) But I have to use what I got :) Luckily it worked for this project.
Nice work. Looks like the real deal.
Thanks! It is the real deal ;) :D
It looks so lovely, and I'm wondering if the magnets will get covered in swarf and dust and become too weak.
great job indeed. do you planning to make second one on the right side of the lathe?
I ashame to tell, but I'm using an old sock to cover my small milling machine slides. 😢 After this video I definitely need to change it.
Thank you very much! I think such a cover on the right side of the carriage is not necessary. The majority of the chips are on the left side. On the right side there is also the tailstock which would interfere. I will istall way wipers on the right side of the carriage. That is probably sufficient. Cool idea with the sock :D Why not, sounds simple and effective :)
Very elegant, congratulations
Thank you very much!
Very nice work. Wouldn't it be better to rotate the cover (right to left)?
Thanks! Why do you think this might be better? I haven't really thought about the orientation.
that is exactly what i need for my EMCO Compact 8! Thank you! can you give me a link to the bending tool?
Also, have you thought of using regular pop rivets instead? I feel like the bolts will come loose. There might even be small clothe rivets that look nice
But they are not removable. Thats the advantage of using screws. Everything can be easily disassembled.
Very nice solution!
Thanks!
Nice job. I was wondering how this works with tiny chips that get caught between the headstock and the way covers when it closes? Do u have to leave a gap.. say 2-3 mm if running the machine unattended so it got some compaction space until it's been (manually) cleaned?
That's a good question. I will have to test this to see how it behaves.
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Never heard of this. Thank you very much for the hint. I will look it up!
A fantastic solution!
Thanks!
Very well done!
Thanks!
Well done you gave me a idea as I have that same problem
Thanks
Thanks!
Awesome. Where did you find that adhesive?
Thanks! Just searched for self adhesive felt strips. They are sold in different thicknesses.
Very nicely done! If you want to keep them moving together, a scissor mechanism might do the trick. I saw that in another vid somewhere
Thanks! Yes, a scissor mechanism is the ultimate way to go. On industrial way covers this is standard. But I have no idea how I could have implemented this. Was complicated enough so far :)
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Really good work!! Amazing 👍
Thank you!
Looks really nice. Thabks for sharing.
Thank you!