Unimat Classic

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Turn soft metals like a professional toolmaker. Longitudinal and cross slides with a mm- scaled hand wheel, allows for precise work to an accuracy of 0.03mm! Built with quality components the Unimat 1 allows the user to produce fine items such as axle, gears, couplings, rims and pulleys. Hand held & Bench Drill

Avoids the necessity to short rig mobile cranes on small mats to lift traditional larger mats into positionNeutral grey finish avoids corporate branding conflict. Your company name included on end cap decals It's hard to believe that Unimat DB/SLs went out of production, given how excellent they are. I expect that the decrease in hobby machining and the necessary expense of manufacturing high-tolerance machine tools caused them to be unprofitable for Maier to build anymore.

The above is side milling. When you end mill you will find that tend to flex to one side with micro machines. With experience you will learn to compensate for this. Getting parts, as opposed to tools, for Unimat lathes can be challenging. The first thing that you will almost certainly need will be replacement drive belts. Below is a quote from a David (LO) Smith entry on the Gauge 0 Guild Forum on the subject. (David is a member of the G0G Techical Comittee and appears in various guises on several modelling forums). It is my experience that there is not much on a ship model that requires a lathe. Most of that (spars) can be accomplished using an electric drill in a shop made clamp. The one part that would be difficult to fake - turning up 100 cannon - a lathe and pattern duplicator helps here. Mine came from a pawn(?) shop in California in '69. No box, no manual, no tooling. I had to figure out everything for myself. In those days, there wasn't much understanding of the difference between M6X1 fasteners and 1/4-20 &-28 we had on the ship. Not even the ship's machinist had any ideas in those days. But I learned a little here and some more there and eventually had a usable machine. A single common 500mm module width offers the ultimate in flexibility / interchangeable rig setup areasThe second countershaft can also be used as an additional transmission between the motor and gearbox for reducing or increasing torque and speed. A powerful circular saw can be used when combining a blade with the increased torque provided with a second countershaft.

Within reason, any machine you can think of may be possible. For special machines, any single part, up to the smallest screw, is available. Rather late in the day, on August 1, 1955, a United States patent (No. 2,821,009) was applied for. However, there are four known copies of the Unimat: the Rowic HM-175 from Argentine (possibly still available even in 2021), one of an unknown name manufactured in Russia and the other (possibly) in East Germany . While the Rowic appears to have been so well made - and so similar to the original - that it may well have been manufactured using replicas of the proper factory dies, the other two, from countries under communist control at the time, were significantly different. Two especially interesting home-made Unimats have also been found: the No.1 copy here and the No.2 copy here Its simple modular construction allows easy change of function. Everything you need is in the box including the power supply (full contents see below)UNIMAT 1 is THE CoolTool ® , unique, versatile, easy-to-use, and technically developed for unlimited possibilities for building-up. The product also comes with a five year warranty.

When you need to replace/obtain drill bits do so via specialist tool suppliers eg Drill Service (Horely) Ltd . A guy who who knows a lot more about tools and modelling put it to me "don't get your bits from the usual model railway exhibitions". I didn't heed this advice and ended up with badly ground bits that cut over size and wandered. From the specialists you can get bits with very small cutting diameter with a wider shank that are more securely held in the collets. The UNIMAT 1 CLASSIC opens new dimensions in applications and precision. In addition to the machines found in the BASIC unit, the UNIMAT 1 CLASSIC will amaze you with functions seen only in larger, more expensive lathes and millsThe set includes comprehensive instructions plus DVD. The Unimat classic is just the start of your own home workshop. There are many optional accessories to expand the system further to customise your requirements. The product also comes with a 5 year warranty (excluding parts subject to normal wear and tear) Made in Austria The one function that requires a lathe is turning metal to fabricate your own tools. A machinists lathe is essentially a tool to make tools.