DeepDiver wrote:
"Mark Healey" wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:00:32 -0600, Steve Koschmann wrote:

How much space do you have?

Very little, A 1 bedroom apartment.


I hope you're not planning on setting up your shop inside your living
spaces. Metalworking involves taking large chunks of metal and cutting off
tiny chips to make smaller pieces of metal. Those sharp little chips are
nasty: I wouldn't want them in my home.

Yeah, been there and tried to do that.

In my youth I bought a used Unimat lathe
and thought I could do little pocket-sized
projects in my apartment. Basic issues
like rough-cutting stock, chips, general
lack of guts with the machine and space
made it almost impossible.

Besides, if you *really* want to make
precise, pocket-sized machines, you need
to think about a Hardinge or Monarch tool
room lathe. That's the real ticket.