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18" wide jaws with a throat of 12"...And it requires a crane/engine lift/forklift/pyramidconstructionmethods to move it Maybe a little too much for "hobby work"

Seller is asking 3500.00 https://classifieds.castanet.net/details/14x40_metal_lathe/5129939/

ELS is nice...I DIY'd my own setup...it's ugly...but it works great on my 100 yr old belt drive lathe

hello there Miles... I'll add another "aye" to skipping the mini-lathe...it'll just frustrate the sh!t out of you... Bandit's got a solid point. Without knowing the extent of your interests...not so much your skills...it's challenging to point you in a beneficial direction... I can attest to...

just thumbing through their clearance section...the Mrs. might just get a couple links for "anniversary gifts" At least 10 yrs ago, I got a 9" Chef's knife, by Henckel, and it set me back about 150...the comparable blade by Grohmann is $140. just looking at the pictures...it looks WAY, WAY...

hello from Kelowna BC

I built my air dryer out of copper tubing. It's been pretty effective. I ran a braided steel hose from the compressor to the inlet. Same stuff we use on big trucks. I lucked out getting it. One of my suppliers was sitting on this 5/8" for over a year. I paid less then their cost...

Here's my one purchase from DotStripe...these button inserts work really good. Even on my old n slow big lathe. No complaints from me. If I hadn't watched Curtis from Cutting Edge using them...I'd still be scratching my noggin on how to put a nice radius onto my parts...

paging @140mower

So a freebie gooseneck work lamp from MP made it's way home the other day. This one was up for grabs as 2 of the braces in it's hinge setup were asked to move in a direction that wasn't compliant with the design. I got straight to using the existing hinge braces as templates, and fashioned up...

welcome Joni

it was just one other reason why I changed from fruit-phone to a gobot-phone... anyone else remember Go-Bots??

I think I ran into a similar situation when I wanted to post a couple shots of the mill, with my magnetic air blower update...it kept kicking back an error message about 2 of the pic files...I tried emailing the pics to my laptop even, to post them from there. Same error messages. I figured my...

dude...that is awesome...you almost had me...but I remembered your photo's from the shop tour thread an thought "there is no way in hell that thing would fit along any of his walls... but wouldn't that be a hoot in your shop...The Bride may not be as impressed as us...but I'm sure she'd get over...

If I see anything in my neck of the woods...I'll post it for you. Are you dead set on Hypertherm? I have seen other machines (besides the Jungle Store specials) like Everlast, Miller etc from time to time.