These tables are extracted and slightly updated from the Home Shop Machinist index at http://www.homeshopmachinist.net/resources/article-index/ and the Machinist’s Workshop index at http://www.machinistsworkshop.net/resources/article-index/. I don’t promise to keep this up-to-date, so consider the original sources as definitive…
Home Shop Machinist
| Article Title | Author | Page | Subject | Issue |
| Notes on the 7 x 10 Mini-Lathe – Harbor Freight Model 33684 | Joe Mroz | 41 | Hobby Community | HSM Vol. 21 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2002 |
| T-slotted Faceplate for the Mini-lathe, A | Sandro Di Filippo | 10 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 30 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2011 |
| Additions and Modifications to a Mini-lathe | Ted Hansen | 29 | Shop Machinery | HSM Vol. 31 No. 5 Sep-Oct 2012 |
| A+M: Making a Faceplate or Chuck Adapter | Ted Hansen | 42 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 31 No. 6 Nov-Dec 2012 |
| A+M: Apron Upgrades | Ted Hansen | 49 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 1 Jan-Feb 2013 |
| A+M: Bed Wipers & Carriage Ways | Ted Hansen | 52 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 2 Mar-Apr 2013 |
| A+M: Increasing Torque with a Small Motor Pulley | Ted Hansen | 28 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 3 May-Jun 2013 |
| A+M: Upgrading the Tailstock | Ted Hansen | 34 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2013 |
| A+M: Alignment Essentials | Ted Hansen | 46 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 5 Sep-Oct 2013 |
| A+M: A Carriage Travel Stop and Spindle Index | Ted Hansen | 42 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 32 No. 6 Nov-Dec 2013 |
| A+M: Using the Compound Rest as a Milling Slide | Ted Hansen | 37 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 1 Jan-Feb 2014 |
| A+M: Milling Setups | Ted Hansen | 34 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 2 Mar-Apr 2014 |
| A Fix for the Mini-Lathe | Marco Crivellari | 22 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 3 May-Jun 2014 |
| A+M: Compound Rest Improvements | Ted Hansen | 46 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 3 May-Jun 2014 |
| A+M: A Quick-change Tool Post | Ted Hansen | 50 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2014 |
| A+M – Aligning the Cross Slide | Ted Hansen | 52 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 5 Sep-Oct 2014 |
| A+M – Cross Slide Improvements | Ted Hansen | 53 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 33 No. 6 Nov-Dec 2014 |
| A+M – Carriage Locks and More | Ted Hansen | 58 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 34 No. 1 Jan-Feb 2015 |
| A+M: The Modular Dividing Head for the Mini | Ted Hansen | 58 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 34 No. 2 Mar-Apr 2015 |
| A+M: A Worm Drive for the Indexing Head | Ted Hansen | 46 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 34 No. 3 May-Jun 2015 |
| A+M: Using the Worm Attachment and Adding a Spindle Index | Ted Hansen | 54 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 34 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2015 |
| A+M: Making Gear Cutters | Ted Hansen | 56 | Miscellaneous | HSM Vol. 34 No. 5 Sep-Oct 2015 |
| A+M: Steady Rests | Ted Hansen | 56 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 34 No. 6 Nov-Dec 2015 |
| A+M: Vertical Milling Attachment | Ted Hansen | 50 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 35 No. 1 Jan-Feb 2016 |
| A+M: A Horizontal Milling Attachment | Ted Hansen | 52 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 35 No. 2 Mar-Apr 2016 |
| A+M: Fine Feeds and Torque | Ted Hansen | 52 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 35 No. 3 May-Jun 2016 |
| A+M: Ball Thrust Bearings and Working with Wood | Ted Hansen | 52 | Lathes | HSM Vol. 35 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2016 |
Machinist’s Workshop
| Article Title | Author Name | Subject | Issue | Page |
| A Tailstock Fix for a Mini-lathe | Kevin Castner | Lathes | MW Vol. 24 No. 5 Oct-Nov 2011 | 32 |
| Compound Rest and Cross Slide Clamps for the Mini-Lathe | Tom McAllister | Lathes | MW Vol. 26 No. 4 Aug-Sep 2013 | 28 |
| Improve the Lead Screw Reverse Latch on Your Mini-lathe | James A. Hornicek | Lathes | MW Vol. 27 No. 1 Feb-Mar 2014 | 20 |
| Mini-Lathe Modifications | George Overturf | Lathes | MW Vol. 29 No. 2 Apr-May 2016 | 20 |
| My Mini-Lathe | Jim Reynolds | Lathes | MW Vol. 19 No. 3 Jun-Jul 2006 | 38 |
| New Saddle Clamps for a Mini-Lathe | Carl Byrns | Lathes | MW Vol. 27 No. 4 Aug-Sep 2014 | 32 |
| Quick-change Gearbox for a Chinese Mini-lathe | Lex Liberato | Lathes | MW Vol. 20 No. 4 Aug-Sep 2007 | 18 |
Little Machine Shop tabulates some useful Mini-lathe information:
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
My goodness. You don’t buy a lathe, you adopt another child, it seems.
The lathe includes a couple of you-had-one-job-dammit projects, but, on the whole, it does pretty much what you’d expect.
Now I can put the HSM / MW issues back on the shelf and toss the notes I’d been accumulating. I appreciate not having to work through that entire list of tweaks and mods.
I’m definitely not scratch-building dividing heads and milling attachments!
That reminds me of this video I watched in its entirety last week of some guy making a boring head for his lathe. https://youtu.be/7ngNtK9tKME
I have no idea why, I don’t own a metal lathe, but it does dull the tool lust somewhat. Machining appears, from my perspective, to be an intricate dance where any misstep destroys your part and you have to start over again. Also makes one hell of a mess.
What will you be lathe-ing?
There’s a definite reward for maintaining focus during incredibly boring (ahem) operations, but it’s surprisingly easy to get into the flow and emerge an hour later with a nice part. That’s on a good day with a tailwind…
Mostly, I need simple one-off round things without too much accuracy. The 3D printed “plate caps” on those bulbs and tubes showed why that’s not the right process for the job, so I’m tinkering up aluminum & brass caps that look much spiffier.