Maine Ronin
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Pardon my ignorance and over abundance of posts but I'm new to this trade and hobby. As you may have already seen, I'm shopping around for a lathe. I was looking at the Jet BD-920W:
http://www.machinetools4sale.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=3423
It looked like a nice lathe for as little as $1200, but one thing was bugging me so I called Jet directly. I asked the guy just how you measure carriage travel along the Z-axis. Does it come with a micrometer stop or do you have to buy one?
His response was... you can't! They don't sell anything and he doesn't think there's an after market micrometer stop! Is it even a lathe if you can't measure how long a cut is? Doesn't that make it more of a random part generator? Of course if I go up to the $4500 lathe I get a micro stop with a DRO option!
Sorry, I know there's probably an easy solution. I guess I got spoiled at school where all the lathes had a DRO. So is there a way to make this little lathe show me z-axis measurements or do I have to find another lathe for that option?
Thanks for helping the rook,
Adam
http://www.machinetools4sale.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=3423
It looked like a nice lathe for as little as $1200, but one thing was bugging me so I called Jet directly. I asked the guy just how you measure carriage travel along the Z-axis. Does it come with a micrometer stop or do you have to buy one?
His response was... you can't! They don't sell anything and he doesn't think there's an after market micrometer stop! Is it even a lathe if you can't measure how long a cut is? Doesn't that make it more of a random part generator? Of course if I go up to the $4500 lathe I get a micro stop with a DRO option!
Sorry, I know there's probably an easy solution. I guess I got spoiled at school where all the lathes had a DRO. So is there a way to make this little lathe show me z-axis measurements or do I have to find another lathe for that option?
Thanks for helping the rook,
Adam