User:Raybelec

Raymond T Belec

Chaput Hughes

Ontario

Canada

Occupation: General Machinist

Passion: Inventor

I heard about Open Scource Egology on CBC radio.

I have been a student of machine Tools for awhile.

Right now I am most interested in:

Multi-Machine Lathe Platforms.

Definition of a lathe:

1. A spindle that runs in a perfect circle when taking a finish cut and a bed that has perdictable mis-alignment and doesn't move.

Multi-Machine Development Plan

Build a machine that would help build a village. I would want a lathe that would thread pipe and make fittings for heating and cooling systems, water and sewer systems. Repair valves and flanges. Make a winch drum then power it. Mounted in a skid frame for portability, This machine is designed for rugged use and dependability and simple and easy to maintain. Very cheap and easy to cast and machine a brass bushing. Not so easy to make a ball bearings.Have the ability to stand it on end (vertical lathe) for heavy turning and drilling.

Solution:

Build a high torque low RPM multi-machine out of a diesel V-8 engine block. The engine will be mounted in the inverted position. The oil pan up and the heads down The main crank hole will become the spindle bore and the bedway rails will attach to the cyclinder heads of the engine. The main journal holes will be fitted with a flangled brass bushing. The shaft will be fitted with shaft collars for distributing the thrust load to all the journals. The oil pan being upward allows for easy access to the bushings and shaft collars and easy removal of the spindle shaft. The spindle can be replaced by a line boring bar that can be fitted with spade drill attachments

Accessories

Power hacksaw.

Portable line boring and portable large hole drilling.

Hexing Mill for making nuts and bolts.

Thread tapping machine for making valve bodies and threading nuts.

Rapid Pipe Threading Head for making bolts and threaded rod and threading pipe

Components

1. Spindle Head and Shaft System

2. Bed Rail System

3. X and Y Travel systems

4. Spindle drive system

5. Ridgid Pipe Threading Head

6. Skid Frame

7. Hydraulic power generation system.

Development

75% complete

Build a high torque (10-20 hp) low RPM 65-300 rpm. lathe that is portable,powered by hydraulics.Constructed from a Diesel V-8 engine block complete with cyclinder heads and the bedway and base made from railway ties. That can fuctioning as a vertical or hoizontal lathe simply by standing it on end or laying it down.

Prorotype 0% complete

The engine will be mounted in the inverted position. The oil pan will be on top and the dome down. The bedways rails will be attached to the engine block via the cyclinder heads. The design concept is not rigidity but flexability, and ease of calibration. The Crankshaft will be replaced by a straight shaft running on brass bushings attached to the flywheel the key attached to the bore of the flywheel. This is done to ease the removal of the spindle shaft to replace bushings the four main bushings drive key. driven by a hydraulic motor.

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