you just watch, in two years he will have a factory fresh viggen sat on his driveway 
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Lol, be careful going down this rabbit hole. Once you start you are NEVER going to have all the tools you need because you are always going to see another use for your machine if you just had that ONE other item. 
Seriously, I think you will enjoy using it and within a short time I do suspect you will see all sorts of other uses for the machine. 
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Not me…surely…! 
There is always this:
One of my favorites.
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Joe Pieczynski’s tutorials/videos should give you quite a few good pointers on using your lathe Troll. Here are a couple of his most recent videos.
Machining 14 Spokes at 25.714 degrees. Easy ?? … Yep !!
Sequence is Everything for Small Parts
Wheels
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You know it would be way cool if things like this could be taught in high school. I would have loved to have worked on even a miniature lathe at school.
Even as an adult, even if you never made a functional…anything with it you will still learn an appreciation for the effort and craftsmanship that goes into machining parts with first hand experience, even if it is scaled down.
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Awesome!
I had metal shop in high school. Learned the basics of welding, soldering, torch cutting, drilling, milling and turning. Loved it!
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Präzisionsdrehmaschinen-Systeme
I love my mother tongue for those words. I imagine pronunciation for non-native speakers is quite interesting on this one
We learned some basic woodworking skill in school. Very useful. No power tools though.
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German truly is the language of love, if what you love is precise engineering. You can also engineer fantastically intricate and precise philosophy in it, as Immanuel Kant demonstrates.
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Yes. After 6 years of German in JR High and High School, and alert three years of living in Stuttgart, I have discovered that if you love Beer, German is also the language of choice …especially since your fluency increases at a logarithmically rate with the number of big fest beers you drink! It’s true. I’ve done all the experiments to prove it! 
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Beer. In one-litre steins. That explains Heidegger. Somewhat. Still, the one true language of beer is Flemish. Belgian-dutch.
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This is the first button made to the drawing specs. The one I did yesterday was just guesstimated to test the lathe.
I painted it with a black permanent marker and rubbed off the ink on the top of the circles of the button face, so it could be compared to the real deal.
I also made impressions in clay. Original button to the left. My button left a little ink in the impression.
I am satisfied!
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Looks like you are building this so that it can survive an atomic blast…or the crash of a virtual Viggen…or somebody falling through the ceiling on to it…not that I have any experience with the last two… 
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SAAB built the stick to be pilot proof. I intend to honor that commitment.
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WOW! That looks just fabulous!
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Lol, there is no such thing!
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The amount of cockpit items I had to replace because eof inattentive Pilots (not just trainees) would bankrupt a smaller country…
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Mm… Not SAAB.
No. But at least they tried. 
The safety lever and the trim hat was two of the weak points of the stick. Mostly because they didn’t survive comtact with boots when climbing in and out.
ABSOLUTELY!
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