I've had a steering wheel on the spindle down feed of my Bridgeport Clone for many years, after seeing a picture of a Rosie The Riveter operating a large radial drill press in a tank factory during WWII that was set up that way, makes it easy to down feed the spindle in small amounts, or very fast.

Now I have to go get another wheel for the Z axis, should have thought of that decades ago!

Thanks for the great idea.