Well I am building a stepper drive for my rotary table to do the same thing on my mill..

I'd suggest a small motorised 3" rotary table bolted to your x-slide so that the lathe spindle is used to cut. A gear cutter in the spindle and the wheel on an arbor driven by the rotary table would be my approach. You could of course skip the rotary bable and build a directly driven indexing arbor from scratch, it wouldnt be hard to do. You could still use the software/hardware solution in this thread

Quote Originally Posted by Clocknut View Post
Thanks for the reply I would like to cut my own wheels so my dilema is either to index the lathe head with a milling spindle on the Schaublin very expensive! I have changed the bearings in the Schaublin head to Ceramic 15 degree AC and they willl do 22k (not that I want to do that rpm) and build as normal on the cross slide or build from scratch using ????

John.