Yeah, not really.. but I wanted to cut a section of brass rod to create 3 straight flutes, so I chucked a Dremel flexshaft handpiece in the lathe's
3-jaw and mounted the rod on the toolpost so I could advance the rod into the cutter in small but precise passes (using the compound feedscrew for passes and the crossfeed to increase the depth). The Dremel rotary tool motor was providing the high RPM.This little sideways milling method was much more precise than any handheld work I could've done.
For indexing the rod around at 120 degrees of rotation for the 3 cuts, I used a small drill chuck secured to the back end of the rod (sticking out past the back side of the turret toolpost) and used the 3 chuck key holes as index locations.
Definitely sufficient for TLAR work.