First lathe

[Lil Giants]

I had this tabletop mini lathe yrs ago, and it worked pretty good for its size. What I liked most (and miss on my current larger lathe) was the variable speed switch, that was slick to fine tune the right speed to make the best cut per pass.

It's a China lathe that's sold through tool wholesalers like House of tools or Princess Auto in Canada. I've seen the same lathe in (USA) Harbor Freight's inventory.

http://www.princessauto.com/pal/en/L...athe/8507659.p

[pigeonfarmboy]

I have to replace my Taig Micro Lathe from the fire. It will be replaced by the first machine I should have gotten. A Sherline with variable speed. Pulleys are quite limiting to what operations you can perform. For instance there is no way to get the lathe to spin slow enough for cut-off operations.