/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1318035
>>1318036
I bought an old Craftsman lathe for $80 and added a jack shaft and some extra pulleys (similar setup from Google, same model, not my machine). I paid another $30 at a local auction for a box of old chucks and lathe jaws. I got a 3 jaw, a 4 jaw, and a few different sized faceplates plus some normal chucks and a live center.

A friend of mine got that turd from HF and the motor blew up on it 6 months after he got it. He used my lathe for a weekend to get some work done and said that it was 10 times the lathe he had. Didn't hurt that I paid a third what he did either.

TL;DR don't buy shit tools and expect to polish them up into something nice no matter what modifications you make to them.