Hi Ian not to hijack but i just got a dovetail scraping job on a atlas-cluasing for the cross slide this should prove fun.
At anyrate, I was and still am in the secondary market looking for a lathe, its hard to get in the states now. Many are inflated in price and its hard to tell if its good without looking at (ala ebay) for an exeperinced eye. Someone without exeperience would be well off not to try and buy a second hand lathe untill they have a firm understanding for the basics. I cannot speak for down under but at least in the midwest its been up and down to try and get a decent smaller lathe. The combo machine he asked about is made by sieg(the c6), the mill attachement(the x2) ships seperately and you don't even have to attach it. I would order a base and you have 2 machines right out of the box. I was lucky to to get a deal on a machine(g4000 or 9x20) that I know was in good conditon at 10 years of age, but its hard to say on anything else. It is of course is chinese, its not the best its not a the atlas-clausing I am working on, but it suits and its not all worn to high heavy like the 29 year old machine I am working on, which right now faces a cup on the order of .030 in 3 inches. Best of all I can move it around!
regards
Chris  |