"Ignoramus23461" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:50:15 +0400, Gil HASH
wrote:
| 'lo
| Xcuze me for the newbie's strange question of the day :
| Can a lathe be replaced by a milling machine for quite all metalworking?
| In another terms, a milling machine is more universal than a lathe or
not?
| (It's for me : buying first lathe or milling machine?)
|
| You cannot do threading on a mill... Difficult to make conical things
| also... (unless I am missing something)
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| i

Certainly can be done. There's tooling to connect the quill to the tap
just for that purpose. You can thread larger pieces of flat stock on a mill
most accurately, but long parts threaded in the end are lathe items for
sure.