Originally Posted by
Joe Valencic
He actually had one of these lathes many years ago that was under the Atlas name, and he found it to be a good hobby lathe that you could get decent tolerances with... .001 -.002 if you paid attention to what you're doing.
I had an Atlas and made a forearm piece for a model 97 Winchester--traded it off for a Logan of questionable quality and ended up giving the Logan to somebody for parts and buying a Southbend. Take your time and it will serve you well.
like Fishbum said--go easy on the ways and dont remove any material.
Take care
mike
"She had hooks to make a fish think twice!" ---Chris Smither-"Lola"
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