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- Apr 26, 2011
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I am planning to eventually get a mill but for right now money and time is short. So I am back to doing some milling of small parts on the lathe, a 10L 1 3/8" spindle Southbend. Two of the reasonable available attachements are Parmgren (spelling?) #250 and #400. The 250 seems to be large enough for my parts but would the #400 be better for ridgidity? Both are in my budget. I sometimes see a Southbend Mill attachment for sale but the last two I saw were $375 & $400, about twice what the Parmgren ones go for. I thought about making one, but it's not much cheaper & I am short on time also. I did not want to get too much invested in an attachement as that cuts into the mill funds. Also it looks like I may need to offset the attachement as the center of the compound does not go much past lathe axis center. I was thinking a plate mounted with a large round stud, like the compound slide, and bolted to a block added between the cross slide and the cross slide way cover extention. I hope I got the nomiclature correct, feel free to laugh if I didn't. Thanks for all you help, that's how my shop has progessed this far ! Jim.