Best Watchmaker Lathe-Mill For Sale near LITTLE CHICAGO WI

In general, for the watch maker, they offer the perfect installation. Plus, the price is far better than a Swiss machine. I can’t foresee a watchmaker needing more than the 750 watt model. In accordance with GlockCNC.com, they could sell you the lathe complete with their. This makes perfect sense because all those gears are pounding against each other and still must keep accurate time.

When precision of your lathe cuts down, so does everything else. Until now, there weren’t a lot of options to turn a Taig to a machine similar to a Swiss quality lathe. That changed over the last few years. A small company in Michigan called GlockCNC.com currently makes strategically done updates. Two upgrades in particular. First, they’ve made there own heavy duty headstock and spindles. Is this great news for the watchmaker and clockmakers? Normally, the OEM Taig lathe uses a really tiny dovetail system for it’s headstock. GlockCNC.com utilizes a much thicker chuck of aluminum with no”air gap” between the headstock and the mattress. This allows for better energy handling from vibration. Let’s look at the headstock itself. If you place the OEM headstock right alongside the GlockCNC headstock, you instantly seem the difference. The OEM looks almost wimpy by comparison. The GlockCNC casing has a metal inside and allows for bigger OD bearing. This allows for a larger spindle to be utilized. The fact of the matter is, that, more spindle mass equals better vibration dampening. Let’s talk about these spindles for a watchmakers lathe.

Their typical spindle includes a 30mm OD and they shrink fit the bearings. They offer ER25, ER32, ER40 as well as the enormous ER50 collet chuck spindles. The through hole is from .30″ to .89″, determined by which ER spindle arbor you select. I’d suspect that many watch makers will be using the ER25 or ER32. This allows for very precision workpiece. Additionally, the collets are available anywhere. GlockCNC offers .0002″ TIR collets (that is about as accurate as you will get). In addition to that, they also have adjustable ER nuts to dial out any residual runout. Of course, when you work piece isn’t straight, then it’ll make it a challenge to dial out the runout. But, what can be done is make your cut, turn the piece around then use the adjustable nut to dial out the TIR.