The Home Machinist!

Acetylene is much nicer to use; if someone else is paying for it.
I use propane + oxygen for heating, cutting, and brazing.

The answer is simple; level the lathe in a spot where stock can extend outwards, if necessary, through a window or door.

Make the mill mobile.

You Americans would be shocked [hopefully not literally so] to see Euro installations. 220v, 380V all in plastic. Plastic tube with loose wires or multi-wire cables, plastic junction boxes, plastic breaker boxes. Even in industrial shops. Metal conduit! Yikes, what a hassle. You might expect there t...

They're standard things, get them from wherever you buy tools.
Get good ones from wherever you buy good tools.

Machinist I knew in India had a window with a grill over it, had a ring set in that lined up with the headstock bore.
I suppose you could do that with the tailstock end too.

I have no threading dial; I'm a reverser. It's like everything, it takes a little practice. Whenever possible I have an end groove the depth of the thread. I shut off the power and pull the tool out with a quick turn of the cross slide wheel. Sometimes, when things are tight, I reverse for a moment ...

I told my wife I bought a new bed.
She said she likes the old bed.
Ok, I said, I'll just put it in the workshop...

I once made a compressor bracket for a diesel engine from some hard brittle scrapyard plate like that; it cracked. I welded and gusseted it, it cracked again.
I would suggest getting some other material for your transmission mounts.

I used a 2 post lift like that when I worked in a car repair garage long ago; great things but they need a lot of space. I don't think they'd be much good for things other than cars. And even for cars, only useful when you're working below, and in the way the rest of the time. It wouldn't lift my tr...

I had a look for a second, high volume pump; the ones I found cost more than the rest of the press.
So I'll be wiggling the one handle as necessary.
Went to the post office; no seal has arrived.
grumble, grumble...

I don't get chirps or whistles; but if I did, and I choose to respond, then I make my own choice. I call that freedom. But what is freedom? Of course it's a fluid term, in reality no one alive can be completely free. We can be more or less free, it's all relative. At the very least, we're bound by o...

I think the device [TV, computer, phone...] is being blamed for the habits of the users. I spend too much time on the computer for sure, but I do learn a lot while wasting my time there. Some people get stuck; games or other distractions that don't seem to us to be nourishing in any way. But who are...