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I just got my Taig and was playing with it a bit and found that the motor fan blows ebonite threads everywhere. What creative solutions have you folks come up with to cut that down a bit? I'm thinking of putting some sort of skirt around the motor, or maybe turning it in the mount a quarter turn so it won't blow directly on the lathe.

It's worth mentioning something about the 4 jaw chuck for anyone who gets a Taig in the future. Clean it off before you spin it up. I put mine on and turned on the lathe to get a face full of grease and grease streaks splattered in a nice arc all across my workroom. I think someone is laughing somewhere every time they ship one of these things.

Put up a little shield, plastic, whatever. I didn't get any grease. I was trying to rub out a little rust startup and decided to coat the thing in phils tenacious oil. Next day Guess who got it everywhere?

Beware the power of angular momentum.

I knew a guy who thought the easiest way to clean gunk from the bristles of a wire brush like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Century-Drill-Too ... WT1P50TGNV

...was to chuck it in a drill press and spin it at 4000 rpm.

The thing snapped the shaft within a second (it became unbalanced at about 3/4 second when crap started to sling off unevenly), and went THROUGH a solid interior wall of his shop on its way to deeply denting the door of a car parked in the next bay.