Hints & Tips for Using a Lathe

[precisionworks]

Good reading

http://www.lathes.co.uk/page13.html

 

[StrikerDown]

Thanks Barry!

Don't forget"

Never, ever, leave a chuck key in a chuck.

 

[wquiles]

Never, ever, leave a chuck key in a chuck

One of the many little things I like about my PM1236 is precisely the fact that the chuck guard (and electrical disconnect) make it impossible for me to even forget to start the lathe with the key in the chuck. Of course the brain is the best safety, but it does not hurt to have the chuck guard either