Peter S
Diamond
- Joined
- May 6, 2002
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
One of my brothers phoned me last night - he has been offered one of these lathes by an elderly chap.
It has a milling head, indexing rotary table, screw cutting, 2 speed motor, 3 & 4 jaw. These little lathes have a geared head and Norton feed box.
My brother is an ex-toolmaker, and is used to using larger gear and is hoping one day to get a larger lathe and a Bridgeport or similar.
However, he is not at the stage of wanting (affording) that type of equipment.
Question is - would this lathe be OK for the meantime - hard to say what for, just home workshop repair stuff.
My guess is the milling attachment would be possibly useless except for aluminium/brass type materials, and even then pretty frustrating?
Are they good/reasonable quality?
He says there seems to be quite a bit of gear noise - is that normal?
The price is around NZ$3000, (approx. US$2000).
Not sure what year it is.
It has a milling head, indexing rotary table, screw cutting, 2 speed motor, 3 & 4 jaw. These little lathes have a geared head and Norton feed box.
My brother is an ex-toolmaker, and is used to using larger gear and is hoping one day to get a larger lathe and a Bridgeport or similar.
However, he is not at the stage of wanting (affording) that type of equipment.
Question is - would this lathe be OK for the meantime - hard to say what for, just home workshop repair stuff.
My guess is the milling attachment would be possibly useless except for aluminium/brass type materials, and even then pretty frustrating?
Are they good/reasonable quality?
He says there seems to be quite a bit of gear noise - is that normal?
The price is around NZ$3000, (approx. US$2000).
Not sure what year it is.