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Help with selecting bench top lathe and vertical mill
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<blockquote data-quote="John Klingenberg" data-source="post: 2026732" data-attributes="member: 107749"><p>I been down both roads. Initially I bought a China lathe. It was ok to learn on. Some of the Early Taiwanese ones were pretty good. Then I discovered that you can buy older used stuff that's American made and is easy to rebuild. Usually a few bearings and shims, a new coat of paint and a cleaning while you got it apart. It's a great winter project. As someone mentioned....tooling, tooling, tooling, and precision measuring equipment, and holdings that are precision ground. That's where the money really goes. Get trained and buy some hardwood dowels to practice threading, schedule 40 PVC works too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Klingenberg, post: 2026732, member: 107749"] I been down both roads. Initially I bought a China lathe. It was ok to learn on. Some of the Early Taiwanese ones were pretty good. Then I discovered that you can buy older used stuff that's American made and is easy to rebuild. Usually a few bearings and shims, a new coat of paint and a cleaning while you got it apart. It's a great winter project. As someone mentioned....tooling, tooling, tooling, and precision measuring equipment, and holdings that are precision ground. That's where the money really goes. Get trained and buy some hardwood dowels to practice threading, schedule 40 PVC works too. [/QUOTE]
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