Originally Posted by viper6383  ....and many of the manual machines I have seen have like 3-4 speeds so you just hope it is in the window.... |
I thought about making uncomplimentary comments about button pushers
but I will restrain myself to saying you should find out if any shop in your area has or had Preoptive Herbert Turret lathes. Some of these had sixteen speeds and could change speed on the fly; it was possible to do facing manually with a sort-of constant surface speed. Wards were the US made equivalent but I don't think they quite matched the Herberts. Good quality manual machines were in many ways more complicated and much more expensive to make, I think, than CNC's.