In article ,
Gary Coffman wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:23:52 +0000 (UTC), (Dave Martindale) wrote:
Gary Coffman writes:

One thing you can do on even a $399 Harbor Freight lathe which you
can't do on a Taig or Sherline is cut single point threads. To do that,

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I was going to mention all that, but decided not to. All of what you
say is true, but none of it applies to either basic machine as delivered,
and requires retrofitting by the owner. For someone just buying a first
lathe, I thought that was asking a bit much. OTOH, the HF minilathe
will cut threads right out of the box, and it works the way all the lathes
in the metalshop textbooks work, so the novice isn't confounded with
concepts that are a bit unorthodox.

Well ... I believe (from what I have read here) that lathe does
not have a tumbler to reverse the leadscrew, and I also believe that it
is difficult to get it going slow enough to deal with cutting threads to
a shoulder, but other than that, it is a choice.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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