There's nothing a lathe does that you can't do with hand tools. (And I'm not talking about building your own pedal driven lathe or something).

I will give you that this requires *at least* a +1 level of difficulty (if not 2) and it will take way, way longer, but it can be done.

I can do what a mill can do with hand tools, it just takes forever and a vast amount of patience. I can also do things most mills can't.

But I do love the item for all that! ;)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:37 PM Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
That is a stroke of anti-genius (or maybe Wile E Genius) 

On Oct 12, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Cian Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

-a book on improvising a machine shop that was obviously written by a non-machinist. It not only forgets about lathes, it goes out of its way to poorly-replicate the output of a lathe with multiple overly-complicated machines that won’t actually function, and can’t be built without a lathe.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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