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Pacific Machinery and tool steel usually has drops from hydraulic tubing. I would go there first.

Osama lathes are supposed to be high quality made in Taiwan. They are a copy of the Mori Seiki lathes from Japan. If it looks good buy it.

Now you guys went and did it. This thread reminded me I was going to subscribe. Well my wallet is lighter now. Can't wait for it to get here. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif"%20alt="[/img]

Another thing that bothers me with these small lathes is they say 12" swing. Then go on to say the cross slide travel is 5.5". That means you can only face an 11" part. If you pull the gap and put an 18" diameter part in there, just how are you going to face to center in one pass...

I personaly don't like the gap bed lathes. Once taken out people don't take the time to put them back correctly. One lathe that had the gap bed removed had to be shimmed up to where it belonged, because the factory left some shavings under it. Then proceded to finish the ways. So once the shavings w...

There are container sellers that will modify them for you. They make nice hot dog stands. Any way I have a 40' container that's aluminum with a 9' celing. All the steel one I looked at were pretty rusty. It's better if you get one that is insulated. You will pay a few hundred more for them, but the ...

I have hard turned in engine lathes before. I use the black ceramic inserts. The 80 degree diamond shaped negative inserts (CNMG) are what I use the most. Generaly if you can hold a tolerance on regular work then you can hard turn. I run at 400 surface feet and .001" feed rate and watch the spa...

Nice machine, although I would prefer a horizontal with the verticle attachment. If everything works it's a real buy.

I would say it worked in drawing 2. In drawing 1 the fuel wouldn't pass through the filtering material. So no particles are removed. Also the water may not go through the filter media due to the capilary action of the oil on the filter media. So no water removal either. I once knew a guy who would d...

Use cast iron. If you were closer I would give you a chunk.

Last one. The pictures don't look as well once they are posted. I could email better pictures if you are interested.

And still another.