Turning your mill into a lathe

Overview

I needed lathe quality round parts, and at the time I only had the vertical mill. It’s actually not to difficult to get this to work smoothly. Programmed in Fusion360.

Build List

Credit to ‘Lucas is Busy’ for his post edits – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6QZH0-Lv3fbWI194clvKA

Credit to Templar MFG on insta for the initial tool block cad model that I ended up modifying.

Links: 

• Post processor for haas vertical mill.
• Direct link to post processor if other link is dead
• Step file for tooling block