Yep, I did it! I bought myself a lathe! A guy had an old Atlas 36" listed and I went to look at it and decided that it really wasn't quite big enough, he had a few others but they where about $2000 more so couldn't do it. While leaving I noticed another bigger Atlas sitting near the door. Turns out it just came in and other than a bad motor he hadn't really checked it out yet, well we talked and I'll pick it up next week after he replaces the motor, it comes with gears some tooling chucks and centers. Can ya tell I'm excited?