can see several "bench lathes", which look like motor driven lathechucks where the whole assembly clamps to the table. What are thesethings used for, does anyone know.i

Speed Kings? SpeedDeBurr? Or similar?They are primarily are for deburring, polishing and so forth. Handy tohave, but not an essential to the home shop if you already have a latheor mill.Gunner, who has used them, but never felt the need for one at home."Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material supportto a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal StateFresno

I personally woild like Ed not to leave.i

What are these bench lathes used for

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Ed Huntress 17 years ago

Thanks, Wes, but I'm not back. I just stopped in to see if anything had changed.

-- Ed Huntress

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David R.Birch 17 years ago

Same river, different water.

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Wes 17 years ago

Set filters to high and it isn't too bad.

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Ignoramus27366 17 years ago

I personally woild like Ed not to leave.

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Ed Huntress 17 years ago

Well, thanks, Iggy, but I've enjoyed all the extra time I have over the past couple of months, and I can only stop in from time to time. But I appreciate the thought.

-- Ed Huntress

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