New CNC lathe day

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Who knew drilling 12 holes could take so long?

It's taken me 2 nights, to achieve this-


Although that was prior to the final finessing adjustment.

I managed to get two rawl bolts stuck half in, after using a 12mm drill bit after eyeballing the required drill size. Then managed to drill and fit another two with a 13mm drill bit, but then the drill died, so gave up last night.
Tonight started off reasonably well despite only having a cordless drill, but the tip gave up on the only 13mm drill bit I could find. After much shed searching, followed by screwfix searching it became apparent 13mm masonry bits are not common, so I actually measured a rawl bolt, and realised they were 12mm. Only good 12mm drills to be found were SDS bits, and the only SDS drill was my brothers 110V. So after lugging the 30+ KG site transformer 100 metres from another shed, the final holes were drilled and rawl bolts fitted in under an hour.

So at last the bar feeder is bolted down, adjusted, wired in, and pushes bits of bar out.

I also got the live tooling spinning, and retested the spindle positioning.
Sometimes it's the simple things that are the most satisfying :D

So it should all be good for a trial run tomorrow night...