The Turnado Freehand Metal Turning System
Produce items you never thought possible on an ordinary manual metal lathe!
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Turn freehand shapes in most metals, turn large or small concave and convex radii, hemispheres and balls, even trace shapes from flat templates or a turned master.
The Turnado system can be mounted and used on almost any manual metal lathe that utilizes a top or compound slide. The bottom adapter plate of the Turnado is modified by the customer to match whatever the mounting pattern of the top slide is. The five aluminium pillars are trimmed to length to achieve the correct centre height between the top plate and your lathe centreline.
Depending on the mounting pattern of your lathe, swap over time between the top slide and Turnado table is usually between 30 seconds – 3 minutes.
The minimum height from the top of the cross slide to the lathe centreline needs to be at least 45mm (about 1.750″).
Maximum height from the top of the cross slide to the lathe centreline should be 80mm (about 3.150″) or less. If the height is greater than this an additional packing piece can be fitted betwen the bottom adapter plate and the cross slide, or longer pillars can also be made.
Ideal for clock makers, jewellers, miniaturists, ornamental turning, model engineering, and many other types of decorative and curvilinear work
Watch the Turnado demo or Blondihacks review videos below for more information.
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