I got my cassette tapes at a thrift store, they were 10 cents each. I got around 15-20 ish cassette tapes, when ever I go back and they have tapes I buy them. I got my cassette player from a flee market, it was $20 but I didn’t have any haggling or bargaining skills at the time so I didn’t get it for cheaper.

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Nice work opening up a new world with 3D printing. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum last week 😎

This is a very silly question, but could i perhaps order a pair of these from you? as i lack the tools to make them myself. I recently got my first car, and it happened to have a cassette player, and i thought it would be fun to play this soundtrack on it.

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cool video. take the like, but i feel uncomfortable subscribing to people threatening others. maybe another day.

Very cool. Have you ever read the Dave Gingery "Build a workshop" series? Book 1 is a foundry for melting aluminum. Book 2 is building a lathe from scratch, largely from aluminum castings using the foundry constructed in book 1. Using a 3d printer to make your casting patterns, I bet someone could follow that book alot more easily than when it was written.

Man you always come up with some awesome projects! Great work Also, missed opportunity to mount your mini fume extractor on the vise!!

The turntable is no longer available. Is there an alternative?

Hey, great concept, very interesting! You should check out if you haven't seen it the "Turnado" by Eccentric Engineering, it's an accessory for metal lathe to allow free hand, radius and pattern turning. Uses a flat metal plate instead of ways. I think a diy version is exactly what this type of lathe needs. I think a version with tapered roller bearings with a spindle that can adjust their clearances and some way to reduce the stick out of the collet holder/work pieces would go a long way. Also I think for the drilling bit (tailstock) you need a more rigid/thicker connection to the chuck and mounting to the rest of the lathe. All in all I would say it has a ton of potential, great work!!

the fact that most people in the USA will scream ai a 5cm big spider while Australian s are askin 1in big spiders for high fives

The noise like ? It some of the clips, also from the main vid, it sounds like the lathe itself is rattling quite a bit during operation while in the clips where you're working with wood it sounds like the noise is mainly coming from the tool rubbing. Do you think that could be fixed by bolting the machine down (or by adding an adjustable tool rest to guarantee correct tool hight as mentioned in the main video) ?

When I saw that you were printing a lathe on a 3D printer, I thought: "this guy must be a moron". When I saw you pour cement over him I thought: "this guy is definitely a moron"

0:48You were saying high 5 and the spider:nope I'm out of too here I hate this human

More stability, more concrete!😂 You are crazy, so much better 😂

Okay, when you designed custom cassette artwork, my immediate first thought was making cassettes that look like Soundwave’s cassette bots from Transformers.

Only question: why cement and not shot & epoxy? Seems like it'd be cleaner.

A new challenger in the aluminium pronunciation debate has appeared

Would love to see a version where the concrete is more contained, or the base can be mounted down to a bench instead? Maybe just a printable hand rest cover to cover where the concrete is poured in, so you hands aren't rubbing it occasionally?

"who the fck stole my rusty nails collection ?" the person with the abandoned fort ...

PLA is actually depolymerized by water, factors that impact the process are: Temperature: Any increase in temperature by 10 °C multiplies the deterioation speed by 2...3, the PH value of the solution: A PH < 7 will slow down the degeneration (may have been the colour), a PH > 7 speeds it up, UV may play a role, water stabilisation may be vastly different between different materials. Mechanical stress can speed up the process by creating tiny cracks which then massively increase surface area. In polymeric materials mechanical, thermal and environmental loading always adds up and increases the deterioration speed.

Very nice. I love the idea of the concrete to give mass and resilience to 3d prints. Besides the fact that everything in your video is quite professional, I love that you stay humble and realistic on your project. Bravo and I wish you a lot of success in life in general.

This is a cool project and you've yielded some great results. If the "It doesn't replace this" section being at the beginning , it would have made my eyelid twitch less as a hobbyist machinist who takes himself too seriously.

There's still a lot of play, visible in the video

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Wow, impressive. I've been big into 3D printing for about 5 years now, but have always wanted my own little benchtop lathe. I recently bought some books on building lathes from scratch using rudimentary casting techniques, and was thinking of using lost PLA casting, but never considered 3D printing a lathe itself! Very cool, I didn't expect this to work as well as it does.

This is really cool! Please, please do upload the files and in a format we can edit. I’ve got most of the pieces to make this sitting around and really want to do my own

so funny to see people try to redesign a machine with billion of proven hours of success.

first time hearing that 3d printing is wasteful, maybe a 3d printed diffuser would be nice.

The next goal for this project should be to make the tape from scratch, then youd have a completely 3d printed cassette

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I really like this and I agree you really need some kind of tool holder and if there is any way to make it slide paralel to the spindle, that would be great, even if it's only an inch or so. If you can lock the tool in place (distance from centerpoint) and then slide, it would make a huge difference but IDK how hard that would be. I would be almost more excited to see a copying/cloning setup (forget what you called it) so you can replicate the shape of other pieces or at least use a profile guide (which could be incorperated with the slide above!!). How are the vibrations? Would you consider making the base a little heftier & making a bunch of mounting holes where it could be bolted onto some old plate iron or steel? If you want to add more weight while reducing vibration, what about filling the cavity with lead &/or steel shot of various sized (so they "nest") and maybe fill the rest with sand & then sel or cap the openings. I've heard keeping the material loose is best for absorbing vibrations as the movement is transferred into the shot/balls & the move/bounce (hardly observable) dissipating the vibration while actually generating heat! in large systems this type of setup actually needs active cooling from what I've been told (similar to coal catching on fire while in rail cars from the friction from vibration) - so it must be doing something! Awesome job!

interesting, though I see bit too much deflection on collet

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Please consider adding this thing : Spherical parallel manipulator from MakeBreakRepair This would add even more power to this thing to paint figures and such (maybe other use case i didn't tought of)

An interesting idea I just had, if you need precise parts on a lathe like this, you can 3D print flat templates to screw to the tool rest and slide the tool over. It'll require a bit of calibration, but with a pattern parts can be done precisely and, more importantly, reproducibly.

I love what you're doing with exploring 3D printed concrete forms. I feel this technique is vastly underutilized, and it offers incredible strength and precision for a relatively low effort and cost.

Now use the 3D printed lathe to make a CNC machine, then you can make a fully metal lathe

While the amount of complexity might make it extremely unnecessary, have you thought about making a version with a spherical parallel manipulator instead of the ball?

No cross slide is just silly.

Absolutely wonderful project.

scaner - printers units have nice free stainless rods if u see them for e-waste on the street

Great idea to scrounge office printers for guide rods and other components!

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You’re on a decent path, but the runout in the headstock looks pretty bad. It doesn’t seem like headstock volume would be an issue, so I’d go with taper bearings and make it bigger. Also reduce the overhang. Maybe go with a drawbar and collet system. You already have a watchmaker’s lathe with those presumably. I’d also go with a granite epoxy mix instead of concrete. Thin concrete is not very strong.

I understand if this is just a project in using as much 3d printing as possible but it’s not that useful. Why not strip out an electric drill and make a printed housing for that? It’d be your motor, spindle and chuck all in a much stronger setup. I know this works well because I’ve clamped a drill to a worktop a few times, to turn small parts.