Schaublin 125-CNC retrofit.

I was looking at my machine today the Cincinnati, and I have to be careful how it homes, because my tool carousel has a lot of stick out. so in my case I will home positive and use the index in the encoder. It will however require a very accurate stop switch and the indexing pulse to make it reliable and the base measurements of the machine need to be accurate as well

saw todays video, looking good man ! looks like you got the switches figured out ! most excellent. 

This is the video...

Great video as always!
Nice to see your 125 make some chips
Mine ist still in a cleaning and puzzling stage.
I have about the same wear in the ways as your machine has. (10-15 micron)
I also disassembled and cleaned the Ballscrews.
They are really easy to reassemble. If you ever feel the need to do so
I did not plan to put limit switches on my machine. Looking forward to your plans.

Lorenz

Pretty sure this will make you happy as i am fairly sure you did not see it lately and i know you were following it from the start, enjoy:
forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/32784...ofit?start=60#254728
P.S.
Did not want to link to videos here as not to hijack your topic.
Thank you.

RotarySMP wrote:

Another thing, limit switches. It should be pretty easy to add some to Z, ,but I will not be able to shield them very well. 

I am not sure that limit switches add much value over soft limits with a lathe. On Z at least you need them close enough to the end to use a collet, and then you can hit any chuck. And you will always be able to hit the tailstock (unless you mount something to detect imminent saddle to tailstock contact. Which is something I have occasionally considered. 
 

it's nice for a tool change to be able to back up, especially with long boring tools. in most lathes, yeah, small lathes with small crosslides and a few tools  certainly makes sense for soft limits.