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Sheldon ks990 lathe?
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<blockquote data-quote="isaaccarlson" data-source="post: 2360265" data-attributes="member: 33850"><p>I do not plan on doing gunsmithing as a full time endeavor. I just want to be able to do my own work because none of the local ones have been able to satisfy. They either get upset that I am asking questions, tell me they bill it out, or say "most people are happy with my work" as if that means something. Most people don't know the first thing about guns to begin with, let alone working on them. I would be happy to pay someone to do the work if I knew it was being done right and in a timely manner. I would love it even more if they were local. I just don't know anyone like that.</p><p></p><p>I took my air compressor head to the local machine shop to get it skimmed to clean up the gasket surface. He was just finishing a job on the mill, so I asked if he would mind fly cutting the head real quick. He said he would have to chuck it in the lathe and turn it and that the mill was not for that kind of work. I turned around and left. The price he quoted for the lathe was about 6 times what it would have been for most shops to fly cut it. I took it home and used my poor man's surface plate (pool table slate that is within .001" over 2 ft) and adhesive sandpaper to clean it up. Saved myself a chunk of change and possibly a wrecked head.</p><p></p><p>If I could thread barrels, possibly chamber one every few years, make cans, and do other miscellaneous machining on it (hydraulic cylinders, pins, screws, thread adapters, impeller turning for my jet boat and the neighbor's boat, etc...) I'd be happy. I don't want to over pay for a machine, but I don't want to buy a cheap money pit either. A friend of mine said his father just bought a brand new lathe cheaper than the one I looked at last night, so he is going to get me info on it. Probably a china import, but if it has the features I need and is a good price, I can't really gripe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="isaaccarlson, post: 2360265, member: 33850"] I do not plan on doing gunsmithing as a full time endeavor. I just want to be able to do my own work because none of the local ones have been able to satisfy. They either get upset that I am asking questions, tell me they bill it out, or say "most people are happy with my work" as if that means something. Most people don't know the first thing about guns to begin with, let alone working on them. I would be happy to pay someone to do the work if I knew it was being done right and in a timely manner. I would love it even more if they were local. I just don't know anyone like that. I took my air compressor head to the local machine shop to get it skimmed to clean up the gasket surface. He was just finishing a job on the mill, so I asked if he would mind fly cutting the head real quick. He said he would have to chuck it in the lathe and turn it and that the mill was not for that kind of work. I turned around and left. The price he quoted for the lathe was about 6 times what it would have been for most shops to fly cut it. I took it home and used my poor man's surface plate (pool table slate that is within .001" over 2 ft) and adhesive sandpaper to clean it up. Saved myself a chunk of change and possibly a wrecked head. If I could thread barrels, possibly chamber one every few years, make cans, and do other miscellaneous machining on it (hydraulic cylinders, pins, screws, thread adapters, impeller turning for my jet boat and the neighbor's boat, etc...) I'd be happy. I don't want to over pay for a machine, but I don't want to buy a cheap money pit either. A friend of mine said his father just bought a brand new lathe cheaper than the one I looked at last night, so he is going to get me info on it. Probably a china import, but if it has the features I need and is a good price, I can't really gripe. [/QUOTE]
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