ok my cheap 2 1/8" quill travel drill press is just not going to cut it for me.
I just came into a little extra "fun money" and thinking of drilling on my lathe.
My lathe is the cheap smallest lathe that Harbor Freight sells and it been great for pens, better than I expected. I thought maybe I would have shim something or do some other stuff to dial it in but the only thing I have done is sand down the tool rests to make them a smoother and a little rounder.
So OK I can get the set of jaws and drill chuck from Penn State. I'm just not sure this mini lathe will be up to it. Though if they would work I probably would get a real 4 jaw chuck so I can do other things and then just get jacobs MT 1 chuck for the tail stock.
Any thoughts. Last time I asked some one I think had one that they tried to use with this lathe and was looking to unload it because they had some trouble.
thanks
I just came into a little extra "fun money" and thinking of drilling on my lathe.
My lathe is the cheap smallest lathe that Harbor Freight sells and it been great for pens, better than I expected. I thought maybe I would have shim something or do some other stuff to dial it in but the only thing I have done is sand down the tool rests to make them a smoother and a little rounder.
So OK I can get the set of jaws and drill chuck from Penn State. I'm just not sure this mini lathe will be up to it. Though if they would work I probably would get a real 4 jaw chuck so I can do other things and then just get jacobs MT 1 chuck for the tail stock.
Any thoughts. Last time I asked some one I think had one that they tried to use with this lathe and was looking to unload it because they had some trouble.
thanks