Rather than spending a fortune on expensive hardware, you can put an old drill to good use instead. We've already looked at creating a mini-metal lathe, but Hack A Day highlights a video by Jack ...

The problem with just throwing a milling bit in a drill press and trying to mill metal is that the drill ... to mount the drill press to his lathe and use the lathe axes to move the work piece ...

But when you're in a pinch and want to turn something quickly, you can set up a vertical lathe using your drill press. YouTube woodworker Nick Ferry, used a set of nuts and bolts as his dead ...

Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished couplers were concentric to 0.005″.

Instead of spinning the tools, a lathe will spin the stock material to a high rpm and then remove the material using a static tool ... Tool Selection: Choose a drill with the desired diameter, ...

But when you're in a pinch and want to turn something quickly, you can set up a vertical lathe using your drill press. YouTube woodworker Nick Ferry, used a set of nuts and bolts as his dead ...