Get rid of the 3-jaw chuck & practice using the 4-jaw, you'll be glad you did but at first it may be frustrating to get the hang of it, center w the dial indicator, most 3-jaw chucks are not exactly concentric thus you have to use shims to center a piece.įor threading the chuck and the lead screw have to be in sync otherwise there is a risk of ruining your work if you are cutting on top of a thread your work becomes useless, I see that the '' Atlas '' doesn't have a thread dial so having a reverse will prove usefull, once there is a threading pass done leave the carriage engaged, back off the cross slide, use the reverse to come back to the beginning of the threading job, plunge the cross slide & cut your threads, without the thread dial & the reverse you have to back the carriage off by hand using the chuck which is a long & tedious process. What is going on with the BB lathe?Can not do threads? Believe it or not many permanent magnet motors have arbors that are 41/64", so I have to make an adjustment. My main requirement for a metal lathe has been to turn down arbors or bore out pulleys.
In any case, this one is a definite improvement.
I even had an instruction manual, but it was so poorly written that I could not understand it (Chinese translation).
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