Home Made Table Top Lathe????

[Radio Joe]

Hey everyone, FOr some time now I have wanted to build a small tabletop lathe to do small parts with... Mostly radio controls, shafts and parts. Definitely dont need to do anything bigger then maybe a hammer handle... even that may be too big.

I was thinking of building it from some old drills but am unsure how to build the tail stock to hold the part. Not alot of experience with Lathes, but I usually cut my controls and such using a drill press and some small saws and files... works good, but I want to step up to something a little better. Anyone have any plans or ideas how to go about it?



Thanks
-Joe-