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A endmill takes some power to cut with. In a lathe one takes light cuts
at the correct surface speed. A taig may not be enough mass to keep it working well. I assume you have a tool post vice. And you are using the compound to slot..... moving work into and away from the mill. I have an 11x44 and it came with two precision chucks. It is a nice Horse Power or so on it and is oversized to stay cool. The ways are chrome which make it like new. One of the items I bought was a nice digital indicator. Martin On 1/1/2019 6:16 AM, Puckdropper wrote: Bill wrote in : tubalcain has *3* full size lathes (he seems to prefer the Craftsman Atlas for his smaller work). And it's hard to see how you can have a lathe and not also have a mill... I mean, it's like a natural pair... ; ) You can put an endmill in the lathe and use it as a mill, but it doesn't seem to work all that well. At least it didn't on my little Taig. It seems to me that milling on the lathe is more of a "checkbox" feature than anything actually useful. Puckdropper |
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