Lathe from a drill with your own hands: drawings, tips for making

Crafts made of wood and copper of round form are well made on a small home lathe. What is the relationship between a lathe and a drill? For an ordinary man, far from production, nothing. But for the modern Kulibin this is a real Klondike of ideas. A person with imagination and skillful hands will easily make his home lathe from a drill.

A buying or self-made lathe - which is better?

The cost of small lathes factory-made makes us think about an alternative solution to this problem. Self-assembled lathe can cost much less. To make your venture a reality, the most expensive thing to buy is a drill or a perforator with a drill function. Let's consider a variant of manufacturing of the lathe from a drill by own hands for private house business. Simplicity of manufacturing such necessary and useful equipment amazes. The easiest lathe can be made in one day "on the knee." When manufacturing the most unpretentious lathe, you will need wooden blocks, plywood, tin, good glue and other materials.

Materials for the manufacture of lathes

Before thinking about how to make a lathe, you need to calculate, but will not the cost of the necessary materials be greater than the value of the factory instrument? To do this, it is better to see a list of all the necessary materials and equipment, determine what is available from it and calculate how much you need to spend on missing items.

The set for the lathe from the drill is as follows:

• electric drill;
• Sturdy table or workbench;
• A minimum of three clamps;
• Self-tapping screws;
• Bolts, screws and nuts;
• Files;
• Incisors;
• sandpaper.

But if your home business has grown, requires high productivity and precision manufacturing of steel parts, in this case it is necessary to fork out and purchase an industrial lathe with a powerful electric motor, rigid frame and equipment installed on it.

What does the lathe consist of?

Any lathe has in its design the following main components:

1. Machine bed lathe. The basis in the machine-tool industry.
2. The headstock with the power unit, in this case - a drill.
3. The tailstock. Its position along the axis should correspond to the axis of the headstock. Otherwise, during work will marry.
4. Need to set the cutting tool. Its location should be as close as possible to the workpiece set for processing. It is desirable to make such a support table that will safely operate on a self-made lathe from a drill.
5. The machine bed determines the basic location of the lathe assemblies and ensures the reliability of the entire unit. A powerful frame, equipped with reliable legs with correctly installed and coaxial assemblies, is a full-fledged lathe. A small frame can be installed on a massive table or workbench. The assembled lathe from a drill on a bed of this type is easily transported and transported.
6. Purchased factory equipment in the form of cutters will facilitate work on the lathe from a drill.

It should be noted that the processing of materials on the resulting instrument will be limited. On such a homemade device, it is possible to process wood, copper, aluminum and its alloys, that is, any soft materials. On a self-made lathe from a drill, the steel part can not be ground.

Work process

As a bed a piece of thick plywood is good. It has a flat surface that will help in coaxial installation of the front and tailstock. The drill can be fixed by any available method. The main condition - it must be rigidly mounted. In our case, consider an example using clamps.

Prepare the main element of the power traction. For the convenience of assembling a self-made lathe from a drill, we prepare a clamping device for fixing the drill. Take the metal clamp, first slightly remaking it.

It is necessary to fix the yoke, which will then clamp our drill. We fix it on the bed. Clamp, fixed on the clamp, clamp the drill. Thus, we got a rigidly fixed front headstock with a power unit.

Lathe support

In a similar way, we make the back of a lathe from a drill. It is necessary to install the tailstock using the second clamp, always in one axis with the front. For the convenience of work, the bearing with the pressed axle, sharpened under the cone, is perfect for the tailstock. A cartridge can also be used as a fastener for a part.

The third clamp is required for the support table. This is the so-called turner-professional caliper.

To facilitate the movement of the support along the axis of the part on the base of the frame, it is desirable to make a hard groove. The manufacturing method is as follows:

1. From the plywood are cut two flat bars along the length of the lathe.
2. Then they are rigidly attached to the frame.
3. Between them, the support base is inserted, ensuring its reliable movement along the axis.

Such a simple and reliable device will ensure the simplicity of machining of parts.

The ideal version of a support for a lathe from a drill is when the support has the ability to move both along the axis of the lathe and across it. With the help of it, the turner can freely hold the cutter during processing. The support is brought to the part practically closely, which ensures complete safety in operation. If the stop is far from the workpiece, the lathe tool can be pulled out of the hands.

Tool required for part machining

The workpiece fixed in the lathe can be machined with incisors. Especially it concerns those parts that consist of different alloys. The cutter is securely attached to the support, which allows you to grind copper, brass and other soft metal parts. As a tool for processing a wooden workpiece, a sharpened metalwork file, a rasp, is suitable. Cope with the work and the file. Well and correctly sharpened cut off of an automobile spring, also perfectly works as a cutter.

How to fix a large diameter billet on the machine?

To fix large diameter billets to the lathe, you will have to stock up the plan with a washer that is attached to the electric drill chuck. Its use makes it possible to grind out details of large diameters.

On a makeshift machine, you can cut out balusters for a staircase, make wooden utensils with your own hands and at your discretion. The machine is perfect for making round candlesticks, and indeed any round wooden products and products made of soft metals.

How to replicate wooden products from workpieces?

For replicating balusters to the ladder under construction, for example, you can apply a copier. What is a copier and how to work with it? Everything is ridiculously simple. The necessary product is made for the ladder. To the compact wood lathe from the drill, an additional device is made, on which the baluster is made in precise dimensions. The second copy is made according to the existing dimensions.

Many have seen how masters work on duplicate keys. A "native" key is inserted into the copier, and all the convexities on the workpiece duplicate its convexities. There is no need for constant measurement of the part. The machined part is obtained by an exact copy of the original. The principle and approach are the same.

Drawings of a lathe from a drill

By completing the self-made lathe with just a few details, you can significantly expand the functions of such equipment. With it, you can paint a part or twist the twisted mesh along the entire length of the workpiece. Use the unique capabilities of the drill not only in the lathe. You can also make a drilling machine on the same frame , which will work just as well as the factory one. The diameter of the drill depends on the cartridge in the drill. Increase diameter will help adapters or drills with shanks, suitable for the cartridge. Make a milling machine, having learned and understanding the possibilities of a drill, will not be difficult.

Electricians will appreciate the use of a self-made lathe when winding windings for transformers at home.

In conclusion, it can be stated that a power tool that is simple at first glance, with proper and proper use, can expand its capabilities and become an indispensable equipment in home production. The main thing is that before you try and learn how to make a lathe, you need to have patience.