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Desktop Lathe
2012
For my advanced machine design class at MIT, our team made a desktop lathe using flexures for lateral positional control and a linear carriage for the axial positional control. This was an intense exercise in precision machining, sourcing components with suitable specifications for the error we expected, and sizing motors to take a lot of torque loads!
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We were able to cut a 1/2in diameter round steel stock steel with our lathe sized 11inx11inx14in.
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