Wayne,

I think the 8 TPI screws are a non-issue on a lathe. I find I just
eyeball the cuts until I'm somewhat oversize, then with a digital caliper
zeroed on the size I want, measure how much more to remove. Thats when the
dials are used. Of course one lathe has very poor dials with a 5 tpi
crosslide and an 8 tpi topslide, the other lathe is something like 60 thou
per revolution for both.

60 thou!!!! How big is the lathe? What kind of work was it designed
to do?


On a lathe, I don't think you will find that you need to make large
movements on the dials, just small ones. Hope this helps,

It does indeed. To be fair to myself, I am going to look around again,
as well as ask here if anyone knows of 10 tpi machine in the general
size of 12x36. It might be that such a beast does not exist. Failing
an obvious better deal, I expect to keep the machine. Certainly there
is nothing to gain by beating up on Enco and then buying the same
blasted thing from elsewhere.

Not that I will go this way, what does a DRO on a lathe instrument? Is
it just the carriage and cross travel?

Thanks!

Bill