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...Video...Brand New Yogi Lathe Leaves the Factory...
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4GSR
Diamond
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- Jan 25, 2005
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- Victoria, Texas, USA
Chuck up a 8-1/4" OD 31 foot drill collar in it and see how this lathe will hold up!!!! I bet it won't make it in the first 10 minutes of use! Something will break!
EmGo
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No reason not too, really. When stuff gets big big big, nothing you wear will make a difference.Personally, I love moving heavy machinery while wearing sandals
Not that I'd ever go barefoot in a machine shop or anything but ...
Gobo
Titanium
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- Oregon, USA
Gotta love the music!
Ray Behner
Diamond
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- Brunswick Oh USA
Personally, I love moving heavy machinery while wearing sandals.
Actually, they're steel toed flipflops. I think my 13" Sheldon has a heavier tailstock.
Actually, they're steel toed flipflops. I think my 13" Sheldon has a heavier tailstock.
john.k
Diamond
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My rollback driver hails from Gujarat.....reckon he was run outa town for bustin a Yogi same way as he delivered my Swift........Still ,Id hire those guys to move a lathe....sandals just make ya careful.
kitno455
Titanium
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- Virginia, USA
So, why is there a handwheel in the gap?
allan
allan
Ray Behner
Diamond
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Just stored there for the cross slide.
might be the cross feed screw and handwheel that was taken off before they put it in the truck to avoid bending it during loading/unloading, look carefully at the beginning of the vid, it is still in the correct place coming out of the building, and then later missing from the cross slide when they are loading it on the truck
4GSR
Diamond
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- Jan 25, 2005
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- Victoria, Texas, USA
He won't need that cell phone after a 5 ton piece of iron falls on him!!!
jmm03
Hot Rolled
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I want to see their sister company, BooBoo mills...
I bet the company pic-a-nic sucks
john.k
Diamond
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- Dec 21, 2012
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- Brisbane Qld Australia
Watched a couple of U tubes from Indian machinery dealers.....of the hundreds of machines,some huge,only brand I recognized on a lathe was Torrent,and a couple of signs on machines referring to Japanese licence built.....One dealer must have had 500 machines under one huge roof.
EmGo
Diamond
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Only if Mr Ranger Sir confiscates the pickanick basket
ClappedOutBport
Cast Iron
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- Mar 30, 2016
While you guys are hating, and I kind of agree, their designs aren't too far off of 100 year old 1st world country machinery. Probably holds up for their use. I've seen plenty of 3rd world lathes doing 3rd world jobs... poorly. But longer than 10 minutes. They took ancient machinery, added one modern feature (big bore) and shipped it. Who am I to say they are wrong?
john.k
Diamond
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- Brisbane Qld Australia
The price seems to be 2 lakhs of rupees......about $3000 A by my reckoning......where can you buy a 10ft lathe for $3k?
RC99
Diamond
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Didn't American Tool works have machines cast in India at the end?
The HMT is Hindustan Machine Tools http://www.hmtmachinetools.com/bangalore-complex.htm
American HMT Engine Lathe JIC-EGQ | eBay
The HMT is Hindustan Machine Tools http://www.hmtmachinetools.com/bangalore-complex.htm
American HMT Engine Lathe JIC-EGQ | eBay
Ray Behner
Diamond
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- Brunswick Oh USA
Yes they did and I own one. Mine's bigger than the one you pictured, but otherwise exactly the same machine. This does not compare whatsoever to the Yogi. All the clutches and gearing in the headstock are beautifully made in the USA. All electrics are US as well. The one STUPID thing it has is a 4MT in the 200 pound tailstock. Should be at least a 5. I blame that on American.
