On Mar 23, 2:56*pm, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
danmitch writes:
This would make a decent small drillpress, and a rather poor mill, as
you correctly surmise. Still, if the price is right, it would probably
be better than a milling attachment in a small lathe.

That's mostly where I'm at in my thinking, so far. *Used equipment is
seldom seen on the Norwegian market, and when it is, it tends to be big
and heavy commercial machines, with asking prices way out of my range.
I have to compare it to a milling attachment for my mini-lathe, and it
does seem to come out of that comparison pretty well.

-tih

Here's Varmint Al's take:
http://www.varmintal.com/alath.htm#Milling_Attachment
The various bits are so low priced, you could make the attachment AND
get the mill/drill if that's what you wanted. I'd still make/buy a
drawbar setup for holding the milling cutters in the lathe, though,
mill shanks will walk out of chucks. Little Machineshop also has both
the drawbar and the "official" mini-lathe milling attachment.

Stan