Warco WM180 mini lathe Mods you may not have, My model Engineering adventure
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Here i share with you some improvements I have done some of which other users may not have shown. They relate to the work i do and which makes results more predictable. Sorry the video is not as slick as i would like but i'm busy with my other projects.
0.00 -2.30 Intro
2.30-2.45 Disengage gears
2.45-4.50 Handle
4.50-7.50 Smaller pulley more torque
7.50-11.00 Re calibrate dial Locks & stops
Very neat and tidy, it puts my work space to shame.
Hi Geoff. I added two over-run fans to my lathe, one for the motor enclosure and one for the electronics. They run off a bathroom fan timer. You are a very neat worker and clearly put a lot of thought into your modifications. Glad you site came up. Liked and sub'd.
Brilliant, thank you for showing the modifications to your lathe. Gives me some ideas to improve my lathe. Very neat workshop.
Hello Geoff,
Some very useful modifications on your lathe... Thank you for taking the time to make the video.
Take care.
Paul,,
Excellent work. Well done, sir.
I have just do.every across your site and subscribed.I have a WM240 so can use a lot of your great mods on it ,if that's ok Great site will look forward to more of your work.Regards Mike
Thanks for your comment, I find having a workshop and hobby very rewarding now I have learnt not to worry how long things take there's always something to do.
Beautifully neat in all respects. 👏👏👍😀
Just one point about your method of disengaging and re-engaging your feed gears Geoff. It will work fine for disengaging them, but what your doing when re-engaging them is your bottoming out the teeth in both gears that mesh together. Spur gears are never designed to run with a zero clearance setting like that. And that's also part of the reason you may be getting extra noise from them. A very simple method of setting the gear backlash to a known clearance each time is to just use a strip of paper between the teeth or the two gears as there squeezed together by hand. Since paper comes in a variety of thicknesses, then experimenting a bit with that different thicknesses should get you a gauge depth you can use where the gearing will be a lot quieter and wear far less. Frankly the lathe manufacturer's do a very poor job of even mentioning this very simple method or even explaining why it needs to be done. I hope that helps.
Some well thought out modifications other wise, and a few I'm planning on copying on my lathe that's a bit larger.
Pete, if you look at timeline 3.16 it shows a second stop to set the depth of gear mesh. I find this mod very useful as it allows me to use the leadscrew by handwheel. There's lots of potential to modify this lathe and I think we enjoy that as well as making things.
@@geoff5269Ok I'd completely missed that, so you were already ahead of me. 😀