You can make any lathe much more accurate. Rotating the compound slide to a 45 degree will make each turn 50% of the dial reading allowing you to take very accurate cuts. I will lock my main and rotate the compound when I have to hold very tight tolerance. Hope that idea helps you out. You can rotate further to take even smaller cuts, but it isn’t as easy to calc in your head as 50%.
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From: Michael Arnao via MakeICT Forum
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 6:52 AM
To: jeff@makeict.org
Subject: [MakeICT] [Metalshop] Lathe tolerance
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MichaelArnao MakeICT Member
October 4
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Does anyone know what tolerance the Logan and the Craftsman lathes usually hold? Im trying to do a project that requires about +/- 0.001
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