So I am new to posting but have been lurking for quite a while. I usually farm out most jobs or I have a friendly engineer who amuses me by alllowing me to do my simple machine work on his lathe. I moved to Canada and lost that ability so for a few years I have been itching to get myself a machine but not been able to justify it. Then the 1200 square ft workshop for my race cars became available so I have room, lots of it. I don’t know where the $200 bargain lathes live but their not around here. The best I have come up with was equalling scrap value. Enter stage left a Woodhouse Mitchell junior 70 with the 72” bed. It’s working with a 220v single phase motor. Needs cleaning but it’s in ‘useable condition. I’ve read up all I can find but any more information is always welcome. The next stop is to buy the Town Woodhouse manuals as I can’t find anything else about it. Lathes.co.uk pushed me towards this one rather than the clausing or south bend alternatives. Especially as it’s complete and the seller was straight talking. I’m yet to pick it up, I have controversial information so I know it weighs somewhere between 750kg-2000kg which is quite worrying for my well worn out trailer. But hopefully it will be up to the task. I’m sure I’ll be scanning the pages working out more adventurous projects. But I guess like all things, nothing replaces the hours learning the machine.