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Introducing the Duality Lathe 4th Axis

Some­thing new for the Dual­ity… the Dual­ity Lathe 4th Axis. This lets you do both lathe and 4th axis work on a sin­gle setup — per­fect for key­ways, engrav­ing, etc. on small turned pieces. Here’s Matt tak­ing about the design.
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And a fun demo video mak­ing chess pieces
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If your won­der­ing about Zero Back­lash Har­monic Dri­ves, this is how they work. This is a very cool tech­nol­ogy that lets you achieve much greater gear reduc­tions in a com­pact space than more con­ven­tional plan­e­tary sys­tems. In addi­tion, the unique tooth engage­ment between the gears means Zero Back­lash in the drive.

Here’s an ani­ma­tion of how the drive works:

Zero Back­lash Har­monic Dri­ve Animation

Zero Back­lash Har­monic Dri­ve Animation

and a model of a typ­i­cal har­monic drive:

Typ­i­cal Har­monic Drive

Typ­i­cal Har­monic Drive

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2 Responses to “Introducing the Duality Lathe 4th Axis”

  1. October 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    John Sasinowski says:

    This looks interesting!

    When do you expect pric­ing and avail­abil­ity infor­ma­tion to be available?

  2. October 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Andy G. says:

    Its avail­able now. Pric­ing and info here: http://www.tormach.com/Product_PCNC_lathe.html

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