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I was thinking about this. I am not sure how much it "backs up" when doing tapping, but it needs to be measuring the advance per turn, as opposed to a feed rate, and keep a count, and also keep comparing to a torque that, (to a guy doing it by hand), would signal that things are getting too tight down there. Then the decelerate-stop-reverse out by enough to clear chips, all amounts to quite an exact little dance!Looks like a state of the art modern drill press with constant torque and all the bells and whistles, I like it!
I admit - I do love it all! I set that against how I do not love the price, +the cautions about future support, and whether to be plugging the cash into a little mill-drill would be a better spend. I was thinking a mill-drill is, in concept, all of a precision drill with some (manual) lightweight milling thrown in. If anyone invests in a whole Bridgeport or something, he is likely to want a separate basic DP.
It being from NZ instead of China may go some way to a better future support policy.
[Edit: It seems the Nova Vulcan (floor standing version) has a 3MT spindle and ER32 collet system. It is built to take milling operations when used with an accessory compound table add-on. That makes it a mill-drill (when you spend enough)!
Here-> https://www.teknatool.com/product/vulcan/ ]
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