Welding lathe
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Welding lathe
The company I work for builds automated welding systems, and this is one of the biggest welding lathes they have built. This is also my first solo project, and it would be great if it wasn't the engineer's first solo project as well. Unfortunately, I've had to take this thing back down quite a ways to rework a few things, but I'm finally back to forward progress.
Those chucks are 25" capacity, the two bigger ones are both powered and are air operated, while the thinner one in the foreground is a manual operated idler.
Those chucks are 25" capacity, the two bigger ones are both powered and are air operated, while the thinner one in the foreground is a manual operated idler.
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impressive. I have worked with automated sub-arcs that were used for welding tanks for the oilfield (maintenance crew). but they weren't quite this extreme. i take it this lathe is for heliarc welding?
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This will actually be for plasma arc welding, which is similar to TIG but puts a lot more Joules per inch into the metal, and is a keyhole process (it basically blows a controlled hole through the material and refills it).
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