got a new to me lathe...

what are you planning to do with it? 720 is pretty slow, that chuck is huge so turning 2 inch bar will take a eternity, you may be better using high speed steel instead of inserted carbide
 
having used lathes for 40 plus years in sizes from the 8 x 24 to a 30 x 144 doing barrel work will be a challenge on a larger lathe of this size, this one is at home making a 10 inch diameter plate roller 5 foot long, when you get into the finer work such as threading a barrel for a flash hide the engage and dis engage alone is a task, it can be done and with a lathe this size things can go bad quickly, its a nice piece of machinery defiantly made to work

I have a Toss 18x96 in the shop, has the 10 inch 3 jaw with the D8 spindle, it will spin up to 2800, its solid and that's a challenge threading barrels but great to turn the brake rotors,
 
laurencen said:
having used lathes for 40 plus years in sizes from the 8 x 24 to a 30 x 144 doing barrel work will be a challenge on a larger lathe of this size, this one is at home making a 10 inch diameter plate roller 5 foot long, when you get into the finer work such as threading a barrel for a flash hide the engage and dis engage alone is a task, it can be done and with a lathe this size things can go bad quickly, its a nice piece of machinery defiantly made to work

I have a Toss 18x96 in the shop, has the 10 inch 3 jaw with the D8 spindle, it will spin up to 2800, its solid and that's a challenge threading barrels but great to turn the brake rotors,
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What do you mean when you say that the engage/disengage is a task? This one seems to be quite easy.
 
So, I needed a fuel nozzle pipe built. So, I took and threaded a 1" pipe with a HSS insert. It threaded beautifully once I figured out how the settings worked... There's 5 levers and a turn knob you have to synchronize. Once I got it figured out, it made absolutely gorgeous threads...
 
You are going to have to bed it into it's own concrete foundation. This requires some very careful and precise work-but necessary. In the trade it was/is considered part of a millwright's job. Many would disagree!
 
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