Does anyone have information about the use of linear bearings as the beds

in homemade lathes and milling machines??

Hello Micheal- nice to meet you

I recently bought a cheap bench lathe and have fitted it with servos and am running mach3

There have been many problems. Fitting limit switches,fitting home switches making fittings for the ball screw – routing wiring away from interference ( mechanical and electric) ts.

Other issues are that the gearbox is noisy and the speed range is inadequate.

So instead of messing around with something of known dubious quality- I am going to

convert it back to original and rather build myself a new all electronic lathe. I am sure it will

probably be cheaper ( and better) than trying to work with something junky and badly made.

( one of the things that I had to do was to strip down the gearbox completely and take about a teaspoonful of foundry sand our that had been left there.

regarrdes fred