Subject: Re: Want: Tabletop lathe-mill-drillpress ???

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan M. Elson)
Date: 23 Jul 1996 05:06:08 GMT

M.E. Moore ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Does anyone know suppliers for those little tabletop 
: lathe-mill-drillpresses?  We hire out medium size and big work to a 
: local machine shop, but I want to get one of those little all-in-one 
: units for small jobs on-site.

I want to warn you about the Enco version of the chinese 3-in-1 machine.
It actually makes a passable lathe.  The deficiencies as a mill, however,
are severe.  The worst part of the machine is that the milling head can
not be raised or lowered.  The quill travel is too short to change between
a large drill in a jacob's chuck and an end mill in an end mill holder
without raising or lowering the workpiece!  This is a real killer!

There are numerous other deficiencies, but that is the worst.