Alpo
Plastic
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2005
- Location
- Cumming, GA
I’m new to the site and have been gleaming all the info I could for the past few days. Here’s the deal. I’m broke. Bottom line. Three kids, two new cars, yada yada. This post isn’t intended as a poor mouthing exercise, but I needed to make a point. Within the next several months I intend to purchase a lathe for gunsmithing work. At this point, I am only looking for a lathe to use for about 5-6 hours per week, but I don’t want to waste my hard earned cash. I would love to be able to purchase a used US or English lathe, but I couldn’t tell you if a used machine was worn out by looking at it if my life depended on it. My question is, are the Chinese lathes truly pieces of junk? I have read most of the Chinese vs. American posts here and quite frankly have gotten very confused within the past two days. Some folks wouldn’t touch ‘em with a 10 ft. pole others just love ‘em to death. If I have to go Chinese in order to start making chips what brand and distributor has the best reputation for service? I know this horse has been beaten to a pulp already and I apologize for bringing it up again, but…….