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I tried using one before. They're unusual and require getting accustomed to the key layout. It's worth doing though because there's so much good data at hand, available without firing-up the computer
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09-05-2012, 08:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2012, 09:30 PM by TOM REED.)
Ordered last thurs delivered today 6 days later. It is a nice piece and does functions that I have never even heard of plus many I am familiar with but probably never learn how to use it to it's full potential. It is definitely not one of the needed items for a beginner and most likely not even myself. Oh well I have it now. tom
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Tom,
It's another tool so you must need it.
Better to have a tool and not need it than to have the need and no tool, or something like that.
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09-06-2012, 07:01 AM
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Close enough.
It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
I bought the cheap version without all the extras, on sale for about $15 IIRC. I don't know how to use the "extras" anyway. If I did, I shouldn't need them in the first place, right?
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Mine works, I just don't know if I am smart enough to get it to work for me. tom
Logan 10x26" lathe
SIEG 12x40" lathe
RongFU 45 clone mill
6" import band saw
Baldor Grinder
thousand of tools+tooling pieces 40 yrs of collecting