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Originally Posted by squirrel
If you need to make gearboxes, and you're not very good at laying out and drilling the holes with a drill press or punch, then a mill can be very helpful. Boring holes for press fit bearings can be done with a lathe, in fact you can more easily control the size of the hole.
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But it is also far harder to setup and hold a gearbox plate in a lathe with a faceplate or a 4 jaw (unless your skilled, and you have the right tooling). If you don't have either of those, your screwed. With a boring bar and a mill you can make holes of any size (within .0005) on any piece you can get on the bed.
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Originally Posted by squirrel
A better solution might be to figure out how to design the gearbox so it can use looser fits, like AM does.
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More like poor machining that can causes gears to wear and fail quicker. Also it adds a ton more friction.
The best answer to this thread: Just get both.
Btw, this was quite a good thread also on a similar subject:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85568