Depends on your endurance and tolerance for boredom.... and how long/deep the cut is. I have not done weeks of work with the turret, but I found THAT out soon enough.... leaning on the lever through a fair depth of cut at nearly full stroke.
Most of the work Day job used them for was under 1/4" if not under 1/8" of stroke.
Barely a wrist-flick on the lone Hardinge, the many modified SB 9", and not a great deal more on a tie bar with shop-fabbed
one-hole TS lever-ram.
The PROBLEM . even on those never-break-a-sweat Hardinge-sized motherships, is easily as bad as on the work-yer-arseoff W&S:
One must sort of train ganglia, then disconnect the higher brain in order to FUNCTION as an automaton, ELSE mess-up sequencing and slow down throughput, scrap parts, or both. That isn't "natural" for humans, so we long since invented "automatic" machines to do it better.
It was like me late mum being rated fastest teletype operator, her unit, War Two. HTF can "faster" be had with a machine mechanically held to but 50 baud, and all machines the same?
Simple enough. She could sit down, cold, immediately hit and HOLD a STEADY 50 baud for as much as 16 hours at a go. Same again, any money-making turret lathe, and NO it ain't any fun at all. Mum soon quit and went over to making RADAR sets, lest she go
nuts!
I'm not putting the Enco hex onto the 10EE for "production".
It's going on simply because the OEM one-hole #2 MT with too-slow handwheel feed is undersized and borderline USELESS.
