05-18-2012, 10:03 PM
well the reason i have a lathe for is to put my life back together I'm a time served machinist but after having a RTA this all ended i decided to get my self a lathe to rehabilitate my self so i was on the look out for a lathe i had to go to a work place for assessment this turned out to be remploy this is a factory run by the government for disabled people but they are shutting them dawn any way wile i was their i had to do a stock check of all the machinery on site that's when i fawned my lathe a compact 8 it had bin used in the testing of cooker control knobs it had a felt wheel which run in jiff then on to the printed part of the cooker knob if the print got rubbed off then that Bach of knobs was rejected on leaving the manager of the factory gave me the lathe as it was only gowning to be wade in for scrap as I'm unemployed finances are stretched so i don't have a lot of cash for tooling but I'm getting their
krv3000, proud to be a member of MetalworkingFun Forum since Feb 2012.