Wood Lathe Project

[mikeplumb]

Hi, my current assignment for my night class is based on designing a wood turning lathe for manufacture. I have spent a good while gathering information on this subject and to be honest I would never have thought turning could be so interesting. However I am struggling to get some information on the following, if anyone could offer their help I would greatly appreciate it.

Ensure that your design meets relevant machinery, safety,electrical standards and state which standards you have consulted.

I cannot find any sources that help me with the above whether it be via the internet or library, though most of the internet sources regarding standards require you to purchase the standards first.

Thanks for your time, hope you can help!

Mike

 

[dkulze]

Have you checked on standards for machine tools in general? I'm guessing that you could go on your state's website and start emailing specific questions to the omnbudsman for direction.

Dietrich

 

[Griesbach]

Mike,
I just did a quick google search and came up with some info from OSHA.

Here are some links.

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9836

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9837

If these links work, they should take you to areas in the table of contents of the OSHA index. If they don't take you to where I got them, google OSHA and search on their site.

I hope this will be of some help. Good Luck, I hope you designe a winner.

 

[mikeplumb]

Thanks for your help, after searching this morning I came across that website and have a printed copy of it. The main problem being that I am studying in England and no doubt the standards will be slightly different, though over here unfortunately wood turning is very poorly documented and the only references I can find all appear to be American based.

Thanks for the response

 

[Mark Mandell]

Mike,

If you're looking for "regulatory" standards, the OSHA site will be helpful. If you're looking for "industry" standards, like Underwriters Labs or NEMA (National Assoc. of Electrical Manufacturers), you can look them up, of course, but the faster way may be to contact manufacturers like Oneway, Robust, Vega, etc., and ask your same questions to them directly. Remember that you may be dealing with several sets standards for different aspects of your design. Remember too that such standards only set minimums, but "winning" designs will be those that exceed the minimums.

Good luck!!

Mark

P.S. Since I now see that you're in England, you can add Silverdrive Engineering to your list of lathe manufacturer contacts.

M

 

[Griesbach]

Mike,

Here is a link to the British Standard Code of Practice for safeguarding woodworking machines.

It doesn't seem to be as complete as the OSHA site may be but there appears to be some further resources there.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/54-6.htm

Of course, Mark's suggestions are mighty fine too.

 

[Brian Hahn]

It has been many years and I didn't have to deal directly with them, but back 10 years ago the EC was developing a very comprehensive set of standards that seemed to be a super-set of everyone else's standards. We had to meet those standards in order to put the CE label on our products (scientific laboratory instruments). You might try looking for ISO standards. For example, the ISO-9000 series is a set of "quality/consistency" standards.

 

[mikeplumb]

Thanks alot guys, your responses have been great.

 

[Chuck Wood]

Try this one too....

http://www.normas.com/ASME/pages/B5.html