• Watching lots of AvE, This Old Tony, Stefan Gotteswinter etc recently has filled my brain with many lathey thoughts.

    Been trying to work out the viability of a completely DIY lathe based on the plenty kW IPM motor from a Denso ES27 aircon compressor vs just buying a chinesium 7x12 lathe and learning how to finish the ways properly.

  • If you've got the tooling to make a lathe from scratch, then you already have a lathe. Which makes you wonder how they made the first lathe. But there you go.

    Everyone should have a lathe though. I've got a Chester DB10G. Cheap and cheerful, but does the job.

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