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john lucas

That's an interesting lathe. A little steep in price. I would also worry about how fast that thing stops. I had a chuck come loose on my mini lathe the other day when I reached up to stop the lathe with the handwheel. I did stop it pretty quickly but it probably wasn't a sort of controlled stop like that lathe. I did notice they had set screws on the faceplate.

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Jim Barbour

Interesting dust collection approach. Is this the first one to use artificial G-force to pull out the dust, or have I just missed it? This is one case where More actually is Better - one G separates pretty well in a traditional unit, multiple G will separate better in this one - or so it seems to me. A welcome addition to the universe of turning/shop accouterments available.

And, as someone commented in a different post - all REAL tools are three-phase!

All real tools are 3 phase ?

AZ in Colorado Springs

Why don't you post that on the hand tool forum and see what kind of response you get?

Made me think of my chip carving knives

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http://twistedsifter.com/2010/08/dalton-ghetti-miniature-pencil-art/

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Brent English

We recently installed one of the Gyro Air dust collectors in our shop for metal work, and we like it. Very quiet for a dust collector. Just 2HP but seems to be just as powerful as the older 3HP Torit commercial unit it replaced. Personally, I think it's worth the money just for the noise reduction. You won't have to build a special room to put it in.

This hi tech dust collector appears......

JamieDonaldson

.....to be a recumbent cyclone in design. At the prices of the lathe and DC I don't see any real sizeable market for individuals, especially the lathe.