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[tonyfoale]

I have been wondering about building a slotting/line scribing gadget mounted on my lathe. Any advantages of a stand alone over a lathe mounted ?

My order of preference would be like this:

1. Dedicated factory made machine tool for slotting.
2. Factory made slotting head attachment for a milling machine.
3. DIY made slotting head attachment for a milling machine. (This my method.)
4. DIY made slotting fixture for a lathe.
5. DIY made standalone device as in my post above.

For single pass cutting like scribing markings on a dial it would be hard to beat a lathe with indexing. There are several versions of the technique in past posts on this forum.