Recently had a look at how much we spend on machine shops, and turns out we spend about 1-2x the cost of an 8L lathe a year on making metal things that are round. Obviously material costs, consumables, and manhours mean it won’t actually pay for itself in a year, but the current management actually trusts me to make investments that may take a few years to fully pay off.
Does anyone do production work on an 8L? It would be batches of ~20, relatively simple parts without a lot of critical tolerances.
The big issue is that one of the parts is 6" long when finished and 2.5" in diameter, and has a 2.25" 12UN internal thread on one end. Would there be enough space after mounting a chuck and the part with some extra to be able to mount a tool to do internal threads on the end?
