Re: turning center retrofit for home shop?

> I'm not in a great hurry to do this, as most of my lathe work is

one-off

> gizmos. I did make 6 ball joints by CNC by mounting the 1" rods in

my

> mill's spindle and putting a QC tool holder (without the toolpost)

in the

> milling vise. It worked RATHER nicely, in fact!
>
> Jon

Exactly what I was thinking about doing! What taper is your cnc
mill? Mine is a BT40 with type C pull studs (retention knobs). I
think it was rated for about a 15 lb tool, so I was thinking I could
spin a lightweight 3 jaw or 5C chuck in the mill spindle and mount my
tools in the vice. Nice to know someone else has done the same thing!

A lathe sure would be nice for turning down the ends of long
ballscrews and other projects where you need to mount long things
through the headstock...

Rick