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Old 12-24-2010, 02:35 PM
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Not sure you can add live tooling to a Romi lathe, but have seen Darex auto indexing turrets on them. For starters though a good Aloris QC toolpost is about all you need, and a paint pen to number your tools.

I looked through my stuff and all I could find is a single sheet on how to set tools up on the EZPath. If you want a scanned copy of it just PM me an email addy and I'll get it to you. It's pretty straight forward.

The EZPath is a good lathe though, has a good gear head and decent handwheels that you can still "feel" for manual turning. If you get it, you'll never look back, as threading is just a few button pushes and away it goes.

IIRC you can even set it up to run an angle or curve on the profile as you turn the carraige feed wheel. Plus you can drill center holes from the carriage, which is a strange feeling the first time you do it, after being used to having to use the tailstock to drill holes on manual machines.
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