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    Metal lathe options

    No. A couple of 'extreme users' :) have posted online about installing much larger motors and re-arranged drive setup, but that eliminates the change gears. On @Chris Cramer's 7x lathe, the belt connects the motor pulley with a pulley on the spindle. Cogged pulleys and non-standard cogged...
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    Metal lathe options

    They sell different sizes, so yes.
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    Metal lathe options

    The pulley is pretty small already. :) About 25mm diameter cogged pulley on a 9 mm shaft. Definitely those would all be good things to address. 7x lathes suffer from looseness in the gib/dovetail on the compound and cross slide, and also poor attachment of the carriage to the ways. Some of...
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    Metal lathe options

    Thanks for that suggestion. I bought one of those tangential tools, but I am 'underwhelmed' by it. https://www.eccentricengineering.com.au/products/diamond-tool-holder/the-diamond-tool-holder
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    Metal lathe options

    Understood; thanks. (I really wish we had a 'thumbs up smiley in this forum....)
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    Metal lathe options

    Both: Lack of torque at low speeds and lack of rigidity are problems with 7x lathes. There's plenty of info about improving the rigidity of 7x lathes, but no easy solutions to the torque problem.
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    Metal lathe options

    I hadn't thought of that for single point threading; thanks. I do that with taps and dies, but with those it's only 'one pass and done'. Repeat passes, single pointing would be a lot like real work. :)
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    Metal lathe options

    Excellent guidelines; thanks! That low speed region is the troublesome one for 7x lathes.
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    Metal lathe options

    Believe me, stainless isn't a soft material for a 7x lathe. You big lathe guys are hilarious! :)
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    What size lathe do you have?

    I find the results surprising as well. 14 out of the 66 members responding, own lathes smaller than 9" swing. My first assumption would be that 'smaller than 9" ' would mean the Chinese 7x lathes, because they are so numerous - there have been 10s of thousands (more??) sold. But that must be...
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