Powered Lathe Slotter Build

**Me2** · Feb 16, 2019, 06:41 AM

Hello all, I got a suggestion on my Youtube Channel to post a link to my latest machine build. I'm currently on part 43 so it's been dragging on over the last 6 months. You can check it out at -

You have a very interesting site here with some great idea's. Really looking forward to exploring.

Cam

**Metallurg33** · Feb 18, 2019, 06:20 PM

I have been following the build on your YouTube channel. Very interesting and detailed! Thanks for sharing the build & some of the civil engineering around your shed.

**Toolmaker51** · Feb 18, 2019, 09:53 PM

Interesting; I don't recall seeing a lathe-driven shaper. One more instance of lathes being the single most universal machine tool. Shaper motion seem passe to modern machinists, but wire and sinker EDM, hasn't been around forever...or prevalent in home shops.

Occasionally, similar devices were offered for horizontal milling machines. Most swivel CW-CCW, parallel to the vertical [Z] ways.
Have seen a drawing [30's era] that had a tilt feature as well. Photo was of it mounted; probably drove a yoke or crankshaft via helical coupling. Incline was a wedge shaped spacer. It was probably somewhere 3 to 8 degrees to clear backside of die plates.

**Me2** · Feb 20, 2019, 01:09 AM

Thanks for popping by Metallurg and commenting. Yeah the shed re-leveling really took it out of me, very physical as you could see. Glad to be in the shop doing what I like. Glad your enjoying the series on the Lathe Slotter.
Cam

**Me2** · Feb 20, 2019, 01:11 AM

G'Day Toolmaker51. You can do so much with a lathe, your only limited by your imagination. Next to the Bandsaw its one machine I could not live without.
Cam

**Paul Jones** · Feb 20, 2019, 09:10 AM

I would also add the drill press is another shop tool you definitely need even before the lathe. When I was a teenager built a 6" X 20" homemade metal lathe using just a drill press and hand tools. The drill press provided the exact 90 degree precision for fitting the parts.

Regards,

Paul Jones

**Toolmaker51** · Feb 20, 2019, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Me2

G'Day Toolmaker51. You can do so much with a lathe, your only limited by your imagination. Next to the Bandsaw its one machine I could not live without.
Cam

Yeah, bandsaw's are very high on my list. I do a lot of contouring billet style parts -manual mills and bandsaw.
Drill presses are important too, so many have limited features, I like box column presses though!

**ryan_brown17** · Mar 21, 2022, 10:37 AM

Hi I am interested in building this powered slotting machine for my shop. Do you have a set of plans that you worked from? I would love a copy if so.
Thank you