Amazing process of making and boring a taper gear pulley on a lathe machine combines precision and skill. Starting with raw ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe.

If you want to do this, there’s a great discussion about wiring a lathe on this practical machinist thread. Besides getting the motor to run, to get this lathe working even a little, I needed a ...