Lathe with a drill with his own hands: drawing, Photo, video
Drill lathe, made with his own hands, will save on the purchase of several specialized devices. Not all craftsmen need serious equipment, as it is often necessary to carry out simple turning work at home. In such cases, a simple homemade machine can be very useful, the manufacturing process of which we will discuss in this article.
General scheme of self-made lathe
Using an electric drill lathe
Lathes, in which the electric drill is used as the drive, are also produced in industrial conditions. Such devices are easy to find on the market today. Independently make a lathe from a drill for that, to save, as such serial equipment is not cheap.
Having spent very little time and picking up components for the manufacture of such a device, many of which, probably, just fall to the dust in your workshop, you will have a machine, that allows to carry out turning processing of preparations from wood and even metal.
Make a machine from a drill with your own hands with the apparent complexity of its design will not be difficult for most home craftsmen. The functionality of this device will largely depend on that, what materials and components you choose.
We understand the device of turning equipment
In the design of any lathe can be divided into several main components, which will also form the basis of our homemade home equipment.
Drawings of the main components of a homemade lathe drill (press, to increase)
bed
This is the basis of the device, which is responsible for the secure fastening of its constituent elements and their exact location relative to each other. This element of turning equipment, in addition, ensures its stability. Stationary units have a massive frame, which is located on special legs. For desktop machines, which can be easily transferred to any convenient place, the bed is made in a lighter weight.
front grandmother
This element of turning equipment is responsible for fixing and rotating the workpiece, which is fixed in the cartridge, installed in the spindle assembly. On small turning units, including homemade, the front headstock can move along the frame guides. This is necessary for that, to center and adjust the relative position of the structural elements of the device. In the process of processing this unit of the machine is securely fixed. On stationary models of turning units this unit is fixed, it is made in accordance with the bed.
back grandmother
This is a movable unit of the machine, which is responsible for fixing and clamping the workpiece to the chuck during its processing in the centers. Freely moving on the guides of the frame, the back headstock allows to establish and process on the lathe details of various length. A very important requirement for this structural element is its perfect alignment with the spindle assembly.
carriage
On mini-machines, including on units, made with their own hands on the basis of a drill, the role of this node is performed by the textbook, which must be able to move along the guides of the frame and securely fixed in the working position. The textbook on small devices acts as a stop for cutters, and the cutting tool itself is pressed against the support surface and held on it by hand.
Option of the machine with a metal frame of a square tube. When fixing the frame with bolts to a solid machine, you can get a fairly stable structure, which will allow you to work with metal.
On any lathe its front and rear headstock have one degree of freedom and can move only along the axis of rotation, and caliper (or textbook) can move in the longitudinal, and in transverse directions. The ability to move the textbook in the transverse direction is also important, to minimize the lever arm, created by the cutter. If the distance from the end of the bearing surface of the textbook to the workpiece will be large, the lathe cutter will be very difficult to hold. The tool can simply snatch from the hands of the operator, which will lead to serious injuries.
How to make a lathe with your own hands
Making a small lathe with your own hands will be much easier, if your workshop has a workbench with a flat and strong work surface. In this case, you do not have to spend time and effort to find the frame for your lathe. Electric drill, which will simultaneously act as a front headstock and drive rotation, is fixed on such surface by means of a clamp and a collar, fixed on the neck of the tool.
A version of the machine with a wooden frame
Now you need to focus, which will act as a rear headstock. Such an emphasis, which is installed in front of the fixed tool, can be made of a pair of wooden bars and an adjusting screw, the end of which is sharpened under a cone. If you plan to process not very massive preparations from a tree on the self-made machine from a drill, then you can fix such an emphasis on the surface of the desktop with a clamp.
As a textbook, to the supporting surface of which you will press the cutting tool, you can also use a wooden bar. It is fixed on the surface of the machine with a clamp.
Obviously, what, using available and inexpensive materials, you can make the simplest lathe with your own hands, on which various operations on a tree are successfully carried out. Using such a simple device, made on the basis of a drill, it is possible to carve various details from a tree: door handles and tools, stairs design elements, decorative products.
Scheme and drawing of the machine on the base of the channel
The design of such machines on the basis of a drill and options for their implementation may be different. In order not to understand the process from scratch, you can find photos of the most suitable device for you on the Internet and make it with your own hands. However, according to whatever scheme you make a lathe from a drill, it is very important to ensure the most accurate centering of the axis of rotation of the spindle assembly and the taper screw, located on the rear headstock.
If you are going to make a machine, on which it will be possible to carry out turning operations on metal, and not just on wood, it is better to make it according to all the rules. In the first place, focusing on the design of the existing drill and the size of the workpieces, which will be processed on such a device, it is necessary to make drawings, to pick up for a complete set of fastening of a certain form and type. The basis of the drawing can be taken photos of such units, which are made for many home builders.
A fairly simple version of a lathe with a wooden frame. This type of design is unlikely to work with metal, but for woodworking is quite suitable.
Homemade lathe, performed according to all the rules, is a rigid structure, on which the mutual centering of the front and rear headstock does not change. All moving parts of such a device, mounted on a reliable frame, move on her guide. If you buy or make your own faceplate, which will be fixed in the drill chuck, on such unit it will be possible to process preparations even of big diameter.
On a homemade lathe with a drill, all elements of which are fixed on a rigid frame, you can perform work on metal, but only softly (these include alloys based on aluminum and copper). Workpieces are processed on such a machine, using the file, file and sandpaper, wrapped around a bar. In this case, a textbook will suffice, used to clamp the tool. If you plan to work with lathe cutters, then without support, the movement of which in the longitudinal and transverse directions provides a screw mechanism, you can't do without.
Factory lathe for drill, as shown in the photo GRIZZLY H2669, will cost about 5000 rubles without delivery
additional devices
The functionality of the homemade lathe can be significantly expanded, if you equip it with additional nozzles and devices. To such opportunities, in particular, include:
- applying paint to a rotating part, which allows you to get very interesting patterns;
- execution on preparation of spiral notches;
- winding of transformers, etc..
If you make a special attachment for a drill-based machine, which is called a copier, it will be possible to produce whole batches of identical parts at home, using one template. It is very important at the design stage of a homemade machine to provide all the options for its use, to immediately take this into account in its design.
Summarizing all the above, it should be noted, that the technical capabilities of your homemade lathe can be very impressive. It is important to properly develop the design of such a machine and choose for its manufacture high-quality and reliable components.
