Machinist opinions

[Joat]

Originally Posted by scalelover

@espee. I'll mainly be doing mill work on it and by type and size of material and what I'd be doing i did not think it would put too much stress on the machine, so I figured for the difference in pricing I'd get the lathe so if I need it for other projects I have it available.

@grady. I have looked at the tooling sets and needs and since I have access to full size machines/tooling already I am not too worried about upsizing mine in the future. The only downside as stated above its a lot easier to do smaller work on a smaller machine than the fullsize haas machines I can use.

With all this I'm still in research phase epically after hitting up mini-lathe.com, man there is a lot of good info their that I had not even thought about.

--Dan

I done some milling on my 7x and it's not even close to my LMS mill.
One you work envelope is very limited not to mention your gibs have to be set super tight otherwise your saddle/carriage rocks.
Get a solid column LMS mill you wont be sorry