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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
There are ways of getting around these issues. You can buy spacers and shaft collars.
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Fair point, especially with FRC time constraints when it may not be practical to spend time making tons of snap ring grooves. Although it is at the cost of a little weight.
Lathes have other uses however. Centering holes in round stock to quickly make standoffs is a big one. You can also tap holes with a lathe, and I have even known some teams to use it to broach.
IMO it is also much quicker to learn how to correctly use a lathe than it is a mill, an important thing to consider when you have high school students using machines.