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Originally Posted by dlavery
Lathe first. Period. A lathe is THE fundamental machine tool. With a good lathe, a good machinist can build every other machine tool, including a mill. With a reasonable milling attachment, a lathe can do pretty much every operation a mill will do. The inverse is not true for a mill.
-dave
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That means a lathe is just like a Dremel! I never thought about it that way.
But seriously, that's surprisingly true when you think about it. A lathe is just a mill sideways once you add the vise to it. (Or is a mill a sideways lathe that's missing parts?) There is such wisdom among our mentors.