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Mini-Lathes and me.(I?)

DanMachDanMach Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I've been a hobby robot builder for a few years now, and while I have always found the eletronics part as interesting as can be, and very satifying.. I just can't get into the same "mood" about the hardware. I am pretty profient at fiberglass and fiberglass mold "stuff". The one thing that has ALWAYS gotten me though, was metal work. I don't find myself often needing a metal shell or anything, but I do often wish I had a better way to create wierd metal peices I need.

So I was looking at Mini-lathes. There not terribly expensive(650$ or so), and for about a hundred bucks I can get a bunch of spare aluminium chunks and peices from almost any online store...


Does anyone here have any advice/reasons not to try mini-lathes??

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  • grungeboxgrungebox Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Aside from the fact that you are a little limited with a lathe especially in terms of what "weird" stuff you can create (you'd be better off getting a mini-mill I guess, or at least getting one in the future), I'm not sure what the problem is. It's kind of hard to mangle yourself in a lathe if you aren't an idiot, though not impossible. FYI, I'm trained on a real lathe and mill in our university machine shop, though I almost never use it, fwiw

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