Are there any attachments for lathes that would allow me to use a
lathe as a poor man's mill?

Yes there are. They are called milling attachements. They are very limited
in what they can do however. For an example look at
http://www.campbelltools.com/palmgren.htm look for Lathe Milling
Attachments.


And why in the world does he *want* one? He just got a
beautiful Clausing mill which will run rings around any such adaptor.

Enjoy,
DoN.


The acquisition of tooling is it's own reward.
Has nothing to do with logic, else we'd just carry our projects down to
the local job-shop and pay the hourly rate for machining (which would be
cheaper than the acquisition cost of our tools).