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Hobby shops with micro lathe and mill equipment?
(Stan Schaefer) wrote in message (David Knaack) wrote in message .
I've been thinking about buying a micro lathe for some projects, but
it is a fairly large buy for something that I don't need all that
often. I'd like to find a hobby shop or somewhere that I can go learn
to use these micor lathes and mills so I can get a feel for how often
I'd use it, and what I really need.
If you've got the room, think about getting something larger than the
Sherline/Unimat/Taig-class lathes, you can always do small stuff on a
large lathe, but it's really hard doing large stuff on a small one.
I've read that doing very small stuff, I'm thinking on the order of a
few mm in diameter and a few cm long, can be difficult on larger
machines because they don't necessarily run as smoothly as the good
micro-lathes.
Obviously this is going to depend on the quality of the lathe, I don't
mean to imply that the big ones can't handle this kind of stuff, just
that the larger lathes that are likely to be in my price range may not
have the ability to do very small precision work.
Thats just what I've read while doing my research into this. I'm not
sure I believe it, it seems to me that any problems that would make
tiny work difficult would likely wreck a large piece too.
Does this sound like a reasonable point against getting a larger
lathe?
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