Will Rogers often commented that everyone complained about the weather, but no one did anything about it. So too do the home shop/hobbiest machinist
enthusiasts: "They don't make any affordable good lathes anymore; the affordable lathes currently made just ain't any good!" Now's your chance.
Help develop a set of sensible design criteria--both desired and required--for such a lathe, and then help look at how these requirements might possibly be effected in a manufactured product to produce an affordable hobbiest lathe. Essentially, what we will be doing, is developing the Requirements Document portion of the Initial Marketing Research package that a manufacturer always develops in order to decide whether a market exists for a product that they can manufacture--in this instance a lathe--that will be profitable for them and affordable to us, the home metal shop hobbiests. Now's your chance...to excel...to be positive...to have a REAL influence!!