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Oh ya all good suggestions already have a precision ground vise and 2 sets of parallels and a 3in rotary table but I am going to get a 4 in rotary with chuck and divider next I am getting there slowly

From Little Machine Shop basically the seig x2 xl x axis table Or you talk the bench ... I made.

XL table for my micro feels like I got a little more like a real machine

Just coming back to life after a bunch of nonsense. But went through my mini lathe added a quick change post got a boring bar on the way extended mill table and about to order a rotary table with chuck dividing plates and tail stock. Have some ideas brewing

That is a cool little engine I always liked SBF, but that sure does seem like an awfull lot of timing advance.

I agree on the combos. It does a lot of stuff --- okay, but not it does very well. On these cheaper machines a lot of it is your own personal skills to make it do what you want it to do. Some times you have to trick it into submission, some times you have to out smart it without out smarting...

It is not, and no, it hasn't really gave me problems. I will eventually build an another bench for the lathe, mill and press and bolt them down then.

Exactly ;D not quite as big but I have a couple RC tool boxes, couple of machinist tool boxes, a plastic model tool box, a construction jobber box, and a mechanics box in the garage and a store room full of assorted power tools.

well okay, I will play at least with my hobby tools. Otherwise I have a garage full of general mechanics and construction tools too. that is some of it anyway

Thanks, It looks like you own a Hobby Shop. I have heard that before. No, those are all unbuilt. I did have the intention to build every singe one of them when I bought them; however, as you can see I haven't got around to building most of the yet. There is only about 450 kits + 1 wooden...

No fear. I sit over here. That's some of my plastic anyway

Thanks, I am just getting started with the mini mill and lathe. I am upto making some basic helicopter parts. It still seems like everytime I turn around I need a new tool, fixture, or measuring device, but I am getting there little by little.

I do have my own private potty. ;)

Who'd ever thunk the US would have something in comon with Libira and Burma, the only other countries in the world who have not converted to the metric system, which is quite annoying here because I mostly try to live in the the metric system, but they have made it very hard. I live in a big...

Just cleaning it up and making sure everything is tight helps a lot. I just got an X1 and it was horrible, but nothing was tight enough. I took it apart and cleaned everything, polished the gibs, greased it and put it all back together. It was better, but still had issues. I took the column...

Are you using the right drawbar. The LMS collets are 3/16 IIRC. The Machine has a metric drawbar. So perhaps by using the inch collet on the metric drawbar it messed up the threads. But I am far from an expert.