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Your BPA chuck makes your lathe look small dang. Love the control panel, looks like you upgraded some of the hand wheel knobs and levers, nice looking lathe its DZ clean. I look forward to your report on threading at low speeds.
Not sure what you mean by "low speeds", but I did do my first single point threading on her today. It was a fine pitch, 20 tpi, and I ended up threading at 200 rpm as I got tired of waiting for the cut to end (3/4" thread run). I could use this rpm down to maybe 16 tpi, but then I'd have to switch the pulleys to low range just to save on the nerves. Didn't even bother with a relief cut. Just watched the numbers roll off on the DRO.
I can get her down to 40-50 rpm or lower for the real coarse stuff.