Basically, forget the price of the lathe, mill and drill press. They should
be given to you as incentive to buy all of the "accessories" that you need.
I recently bought a used 16X40 Victor lathe. By the time that I got a
collet closer, tool post system, and a DRO, I had just about equaled what I
paid for the lathe. Similar fun with a Bridgeport mill. I thought that the
acquistion of the two tools would be the major outlay....Hell it's still
going on. BTW the cost of the accessories goes up as the tenth power of the
machine size...On the other hand, I'm tickled to death every time I have a
project that needs one of these tools and I turn around and see the
machines with accessories just setting there waiting for me.
Stu Fields
"Michael Haseler" (remove 8SPAM) wrote in
message ...
I want to set up a simple work room with lathe, drill and mill.

Looking at the accessories that are available they all seem useful, but
what
are the essentials and which just "nice to have".

Mike Haseler