I've had pretty good success with these

edit: looks like doctore beat me to it

As impressive as all thE eprojects jsr does with epoxy are I think most of them take a level of skill and patience higher than the average spudder (definitely me), I have had much more success working with brass, copper, steel and solder ive found it to be faster more forgiving and much easier to ta...

Jsr can probably chime in with the website, but when a while a go he posted a cool link with a mini pistol than fit on your keychain, it used shells like the ones you are describing and had a hand pump to reach the high pressure necessary. The pump was very easy to build, I made one for my cigarette...

Jack I would personally just do it on the lathe, grab a hss blank and just shape your own internal groover (course I don't have a rotary table yet, things may change)

I'm completely with inonickname here

Do research, you are not ready to get a lathe if you dont know.

You have much better chances of getting something cheap here, but as jack said do you actually have any money to spend?

And would your mother you are always complaining about even let you get one? Hahah

What are you hoping to make? Looking at some of your projects you definitely haven't reached the limit of what can be done with hand tools.

Id look at what you want to do with it and decide if you really need it, with a little creativity you can do alot with just hand tools. If you are serious about getting a lathe and dont just think it's something neat you've seen a couple videos of, you should start doing some research. Theres tons o...

Better get searching

5 whole times? Dang that's impressive consistency

If you want it to work consistently with any power you will want some form of metering system.

Haha least you got som half decent results the thread cutting attachment looks like a great investment it's on my list right after the rotary table. I saw a cool video with a guy who made a quick change gear box for it so you don't have to fiddle with change gears and setup so much, though you may s...

Did you get a decent quality tap and die set? Even low quality should handle brass but you never know. Also if starting the thread is the only problem make the part a little oversize then part off or cut down the crappy part Of the thread And are you locking the tailstock or sliding it by hand like ...