Proxxon Precision Lathe PD 250/E

• For face, longitudinal and taper turning, thread-cutting.
• For machining steel, brass, aluminium and plastic.
• Mounting flange for fastening the mill/drill head PF 230.
• Centre distance 250mm (10″). Swing 70mm (2 3/4″). Height over cross slide 43mm (1 11/16″).

Machine bed: Of cast iron, wide-legged prismatic guide. For vibration-free work even at high loads. Rear flange for mounting the mill/drill head PF 230. Covered lead spindle.

Headstock: Of die-cast aluminium. Precision bearing mounted main spindle (run-out without chuck 1/100mm (0.0004″) with 10.5mm (13/32″) opening. Chuck side 70mm (2 3/4″) hollowed to 14mm (0.56″). With MK 2 bore. Rotary switch for engaging the automatic feed via lead and feed spindle (optionally 0.05 or 0.1mm/rev. (2/100″ or 4/1000″).

Tailstock: Of die-cast aluminium. Sleeve 20mm (3/4″), retractable up to 30mm. With millimetre scale, MK 1 bore and live centre.

Support: Bed carriage made of die-cast zinc. Cross slide and top slide of steel (adjustment 60 or 45mm (2 3/8″ or 1 3/16″). Turning tool post for cutting tools size 8 x 8mm (5/16″ x 5/16″).

Drive: Quiet DC special motor with 3-stage belt drive for 300 – 900 and 3,000rpm. With additional speed control (full-wave electronics) continuously adjustable to 100 – 300 or 1,000rpm, depending on belt ratio. Clockwise – anticlockwise rotation. Main switch with emergency stop function and restart protection.

Lathe chuck: High quality 3-jaw chuck as per DIN 8386 Class 1 (concentricity tolerance 0.04mm (0.002″). Capacity through reversing jaws from 2 – 75mm (5/64″ – 3″). Including lathe chuck guard with safety shutdown.

Handwheels: Of aluminium, with adjustable scale ring (1 division = 0.05mm (.002″), 1 revolution = 1mm (3/64″)).

Thread cutting device: With change gears for left-hand and righthand threads of the most important metric pitches (0.5 – 0.625 – 0.7 – 0.75 – 0.8 – 1 – 1.25 – 1.5mm).

Other technical data: 110 – 120V. 50/60Hz. Size L 56mm (22″) W 270mm (10 3/4″), H 170mm (6 5/8″). Weight approx. 27 lbs.