BMT LA Series Manual Metal Lathes
22" - 236" Centers
17" - 30" Swings over Bed
24" - 40" Swings over Gap
2" - 4" Spindle Bores
7.5 - 15 HP Spindles
Note: BMT LA lathes were previously marketed under the JMT brand name.
BMT LA Series Lathes
Capacities:
22" - 236" Centers
17" - 30" Swings over Bed
24" - 40" Swings over Gap
2" - 4" Spindle Bores
7.5 - 15 HP Spindles
Features:
2", 3" and 4" spindle bore available covering most turning applications.
Extra rigid one piece Meehanite casting bed and heavily ribbed webbing, providing maximum stability for heavy duty cutting.
All slide ways are hardened and precision ground, resulting in outstanding wear resistance after long period of uses.
High quality gears are precision ground and carburized (carbon heat treated), enhancing their durability and stability for heavy-duty cutting.
Japanese NSK Bearings.
Taiwanese TECO motor.
Bud's Machine Tools is extremely excited to bring to market our latest full production manual engine lathes, the BMT LA Series Lathes. Quality and ultimately piece part finish depend on a stable platform from which to build your production engine lathe. Starting with its mineral cast base, this specially engineered casting is capable of reducing harmonic vibrations six times more effectively than fine grain (GG-25) cast iron and 10 times more effectively than steel weldments. This heavy casting is the basic building block for improved piece part finishes at increased feed rates!
So, These Lathes Are Supposed to Be Good. What’s Good About Them?
In addition to the mineral cast base, the BMT LA series lathe is equipped with precision ground and hardened dove tail ways which provide the most stable, accurate, long-lasting load distribution design available. A feature not typically found on a manual lathe of this price. Typical maintenance is virtually eliminated with this dovetail design as the dovetail ways are coated with a lubrication enhancing long lasting coating applied at the factory. Long after the LA manual lathe is put into production, if the rails ever need to be replaced, the repair is simple and the replacement parts are readily available. Heavy duty large bore thru hole spindles run on dual row spherical bearings with constant lubrication. These special high tolerance bearings insure years of long life while providing incredible resistance to side loading. Large casting extremely solid tool carriage runs on oversize precision ground lead screws, with constant splash lubrication.
Another feature the designers built into the BMT LA series lathe is the recirculating preloaded ball screws. Those ball screws provide numerous advantages over typical ball screws in that they reduce backlash to zero. This zero backlash improves piece to piece accuracy thereby reducing the scrap rate due to out of tolerance parts. These high-quality ball screws offer addition benefits. There is significantly reduced friction between the moving parts which helps to minimize heat. There is no stick-slip found on the LA series carriage.
