Hmm, I will pass, the spindle is a good enough reason for me, thanks!
I am not sure what I really want; ideas all the way from Smithy (yeah:)) to big ole bridgeport,
My old Logan's threading is limited by investing in gears and in theory it was never meant to cut metric thread. Metric threads are more important for me than I thought. That's where Smithy would help, tight and new lathe (the Logan has a label from some WWII government production) to use for precise work and threading while gaining some milling capacity.
On the other hand, sometimes I need to deal with big chunks of steel - like parts of tractor implements - and bench top mills can't really handle that stuff well.
But I want to go manual all the way, no CNC or computers.
