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Wednesday I was in Chehalis, WA to have lunch date with a woman I met at a
dance. I told her HOMIER was having a sale there and she was pleased to go
with me before we had lunch.

We got there about 12:30 and they were still sticking stuff on the shelves.
Our first pass through I saw a 7x12 lathe out of it's box. A little later we

went by again and they had one in the box, I asked a worker if they'd help me
get it
in my truck, he said yes so I bought it for $299.99. Somebody put it in my
truck, I blue tarped it and secured it and off to lunch. Later I cuddled
with her leaving only when she had to get ready to have dinner with friends,
as I told her, she is a very attractive lady for a guy with a new lathe to
prefer to be with her
than getting lathe home to clean and set up.

I got home, pushed crap around on my workbench and managed to egt it up
and then mounted feet and chip tray. Not much grease on it and that was red
rather than the usual black gunky grease I have seen or worse the cosmoline
found on surplus military rifles. I was careful to put all the paper towel
grease wipers in outside garbage. I haven't turned it on yet, may be a few
days.

Seems a little silly to buy it since I already have a Unimat (originally
bought in 1968) and an Enco 9x20 bought 13-14 years ago, But I wanted it.
The only thing about buying it today was I had the pleasure today and I saved
the $70
or more UPS charges and instead paid $25 sales tax. I had WLS nearly six
months ago, had Lasiks eye surgery 12 days ago. I am starting community
college after 35 years away from school, I don't need this lathe but i want
it. I am already manufacturing rationales for it, one is my youngest brother
is gaving me his 1980 Vanagon, now I have a lathe that will fit in it.

I'll likely start out using drill chuck from the 9x20 and adapting things as
I can.
Who currently has best price on faceplates, 4-jaw chucks, #2MT drill chuck
arbors?


"Have lathe will travel" is the card of a man....

Anyway, I have a 7x 12 and am pleased.

Larry Murray

Larry,
For a drill chuck for the mini lathe tailstock, you can't beat Little
Machine Shop. They have a an arbor and 1/2 drill chuck for $25. The nice
thing about it is that it is a shortened arbor that fits in the mini lathe
tailstock. Most MT2 arbors out there need to be cut off to mount in the
short tailstock.


LMS also has faceplates and chucks. You might be able to find chucks a
couple bucks cheaper elsewhere, but if you're ordering a drill chuck and
arbor, you might as well get it all from one place to minimize shipping
costs.
B Flint