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    Quote Originally Posted by metric_taper View Post
    My wife will not let me build another shop, the intent to prevent any more hoarding. You are lucky you have the space for this beast.
    How big is the head stock through hole? My puny lathe has a 80mm through hole, but a shrimp in all other comparisons to 36" throw.
    I do understand, you've probably ran up against limitations of your current machines, this should fix that....... temporarily.
    My wife thinks that I should wait until I have my shop built before getting these things. But what if I had an opportunity to get one of these and my shop was already built
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    Or one of these
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    Or possibly this for cracking black walnuts
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    Last edited by Frank S; Jun 28, 2019 at 06:58 PM.
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