Amadeal AMABL210E Review – Any Requests?

[Hugh Stewart-Smith 1Participant @hughstewart-smith1]

hello Nick,

We already have the 250E (ELS) lathe in stock – both 550 and 750 length. If you are anywhere near London, you’d be welcome to take a look.

hello Jason,

The EL250 and EL300 are already on our shopping list and expect to have stock later this year.                                  Looking forward to your review.                                                                                                                            (Luke is away for a couple of days in Bulgaria for a stag do. I’m not sure what state he’ll been in on his return!)

Regards to you both

Hugh                                                                                                                           Amadeal Ltd

[Clive FosterParticipant @clivefoster55965]

Might be worth running through the difference in inherent capabilities between an ELS machine and a manual / CNC (or “teach”) lathe for the benefit of folk who may be considering DIY upgrading to either full electronic control or full CNC in the future.

Despite the apparent overlap in capabilities between a carefully driven ELS lathe and a “teach” style machine basically running point to point by loading cut start and end points the mechanical (and financial) issues to be considered in upgrading are probably considerable.

Heck if it were that simple there would be no market for an ELS lathe. Might as well make a manual electronic CNC “upgrade ready” lathe for “a few £ more” and be done with it.

Clive

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

Hugh, could you post the weights and overall lengths of the 250E 550 and the 250E 750. These are not given on your site.

 

Also, what are the differences between the 250E (ELS) and the EL250 you say is not yet in stock?

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Hugh. thanks for the invitation, but I’m a fair way from London and have no plans to visit in the near future.

Regards Nick.

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

“Heck if it were that simple there would be no market for an ELS lathe. Might as well make a manual electronic CNC “upgrade ready” lathe for “a few £ more” and be done with it.”

Once you have fitted 2 axis drives there will be very little difference between the physical products.  Both will have a computer which may or may not incorporate the motion controller, a motion controller if not, and the actual drive electronics.  Given that the actual processor load can’t be very different between ALS and “real” CNC there wouldn’t be a difference in the processor type.  From what was described in the other thread the automated tasks sounded very much like what you can do with wizards in Mach except Mach 3 insists on an intermediate G-code step.  There is at least one GRBL version aimed at lathes which has “teach in” capability and can run on Arduino hardware with a 10″ display.  Would be the obvious way to make a low-cost CNC lathe that could do everything an ELS does and more.

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