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DaveH:
Chris. :wave:

Welcome and have some fun

 :beer:
DaveH

saw:
Hi and welcome  :wave:

raynerd:
Hi Chris, thanks for your emails and I`m glad you decided to join the board. Lots of good advice can be shared here.

Like I said, I`d have a bash at building one with the Unimat 3 and upgrade when you can later in the year. Have a look at Deans webpages: http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/projects.html

and also the Carter tools pages: http://www.cartertools.com/

They both use Taig mini lathes but the Unimat is very similar - I have had both. It will be good to see what incredible work can be done on a small lathe!

Good luck!
Chris

PekkaNF:
Welcome.

Never let small machine or space let you down. I started with 60kg lathe on the bedroom...sometimes my wife took a nap on the afternoon after the morning sift and I was turning some aluminium and plastic only two meters away. We put about 160-180 cm tall and 100 cm wide bookself between us... to keep the chops away. Flood coolant was not used.

Start something small and familiar and it just grows.

Pekka

ChriX:
Thanks for the welcome all. I started cleaning up the Unimat after i spoke to Chris last weekend but haven't yet worked out a way of rigging up a motor - I've got a motor which looks suitable but it's far from original. Won't be able to touch it again until next weekend but will try and update the thread with some photos. I'd appreciate any leads on a good replacement motor!

Chris

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