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Harbor Freight sells flux core MIG welders for < $200, and small lathes for < $1000. You can find lathes for significantly cheaper with a few minutes of digging
by seabird 2y ago
Harbor Freight sells flux core MIG welders for < $200, and small lathes for < $1000. You can find lathes for significantly cheaper with a few minutes of digging on Facebook. It's really not enough to detract from the title.
- rasz 2y agoAnd brand new ~$100 4-stroke engines, sometimes as low as ~$50 on clearance.
- xxs 2y agoLearning to use a lathe and having half-decent inserts, micrometers, etc. is a whole another topic, though
- seabird 2y agoCheap Chinesium tooling and measurement equipment is plenty enough. The guy in the linked video is a horrendous welder and not a very good machinist. The fact of the matter is that the engine he made is pretty brute, it could reasonably be made for <$1500 in tools (and that's on the high end), and needing a lathe (including the tooling and measurement equipment) and welder really doesn't detract from the title.