Saturday, February 13, 2010

Initial Steps to the Open Source Multimachine

Open Farm Tech on building a Multimachine:
We start with a 5000 inch-pound hydraulic motor from the LifeTrac infrastructure, and connect it to a 12 inch chuck. We then add an xy table and a toolpost and that constitutes a lathe. The entire assembly is mounted on our new 1/2″ thick steel welding table, supported by compressed earth blocks (CEBs).
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