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| No1_sonuk:
I did say "may suffice". Mine was fitted to a Chester DB7. The cross slide is drilled and tapped for it, so it sits centrally on the slide, avoiding the travel issue you get if it fits to the compound mountings. The one I have has separate jaws that run in a vertical T-slotted table, rather than the U-shaped jaw shown on your link. While it's OK for some things, I found it too limiting, so I bought a mini mill. |
| andyf:
Hi, No. 1 Son UK, That's a much better place to attach it, and would certainly solve one of my gripes. Yours sounds a much more useful piece of kit, with a proper vice on it. I got mine new when I bought my lathe (same as yours, with a different badge) from Warco, and was a bit irked to find that, to get a secure mounting so it would straddle the centre-line, I would need to start drilling and tapping the cross-slide, rather than just bolting the thing down. My lathe was new, and I wanted to keep it original until the warranty ran out. As roconner's mini-lathe also comes from Warco, who I believe still advertise the same vertical slide as an accessory for it, I just wanted to warn him that it has its limitations in case he was thinking of ordering the same thing from them. As you say, a vertical slide on a lathe is always going to be rather limited in the range of work it can handle by comparison to a mini-mill (or even a micro-mill). Andy |
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