A Nice Feature of Sherline's Machine Tools

Many parts of the vertical mill and lathe are common.  The spindle motor and headstock are identical except for whether the label says vertical mill model number or lathe model number.

At the moment this is very useful.   I am still waiting for an RMA number to send back the shorting out spindle motor & motor controller.  While waiting for that; i figured out how to continue work on the wide angle finder using the lathe.  

But of course, the 3" 3-jaw chuck is frozen on the lathe spindle. I used their frozen chuck instructions which are promised to work 90% of the time.  I have the 10% situation. 

I have a 2.5" 3-jaw chuck which is big enough (just).  So i have transplanted the vertical mill headstock on to the lathe.  Voila!  I can get some of this done while waiting for Sherline to fix the two broken parts.