On 2012-05-13, Tom Gardner mars@tacks wrote:
On 5/12/2012 11:06 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:

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Tom..what you need to do is find an old Hardinge DV-59

Cross slide and turret.

Set up a cut off tool in the cross slide, and a mandrel in the
turret....or several mandrels in the turret

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If I can do it that way, I could bring the op in-house! I'll look for a
DV-59, there's still a huge surplus of idle machines here. (I wonder why?)

Gunner withdrew the suggestion of the DV-59 once he saw the
diameter of your workpiece. IIRC, the DV-59 was limited to something
like 1-1/8", not your 2". But a larger turret lathe (which you *may*
already have in house) would do this very nicely. Just a matter of
scale. Find a turret lathe (or even a lathe with a bed turret) which
will pass your 2" tubing through the spindle -- and ideally though
collets with a lever closer -- obviously not the 5C for your 2" diameter,
some other series would be needed.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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