Took the plunge

[dgscott]

Enco had a 20% off sale recently, and I purchased their 7x10 mini lathe. I know that for $100 more I could have gotten a 7x12, but the extra savings let me buy a bunch of other stuff including LOTS of instructional material. High School metal shop was a long time in the past (about 48 years to be exact), so I'm going to be learning all over again.

The only problem -- I'm itching to get it out of the crate and clean it up, but my 4 year old grandson is here for another 10 days and NOTHING gets done while he is around, so it sits in the box calling to me.
Doug

 

[Mike of the North]

Congrats on the purchase, here are some web sites that can get you in more trouble.
http://www.littlemachineshop.com/info/minilathe.php
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=7X10
http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/
http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/

The only one I don't go on is the Yahoo groups because I don't have a 7X10 lathe I have a 10" Logan, and I go to the Logan lathe group, have fun and be careful.

 

[dgscott]

Thanks, Mike! The Little Machine Shop has already seen a pretty steady stream of my cash flowing their way. I'll check out the others.
Doug

 

[Fred]

Welcome to the addiction, Mick and to the Forum.

 

[bitshird]

Congratulations Doug, you'll have a blast, I have a friend that makes a decent living wit two of those 7x10 lathes and a Taig mill, he makes Titanium rings and is in pretty tight competition with a much larger producer, but the main thing is BE CAREFUL!!! Don't let the size fool you a small lathe may not kill yo0u but you can really get hurt with them, DAMHIKT..