Bolton 12x24 vs. Matthews pm1027 opinions

[gumba]

I'm looking into replacing my MicroLux 7x14 with a slightly bigger lathe. My projects are getting bigger and the MicroLux is struggling.

Anyone have experience with either the Bolton 12x24 gear head bench lathe or the Matthews PM 1027 lathe, or know how they compare. I was leaning towards the Bolton because it has a power feed for crosscuts and few other features the Matthews doesn't. Either one would work for my needs.
thanks,
Harold

[ataxy]

well from the look of it aside that its a geared speed control, the Matthews PM 1027 looks exactly like the weiss 11x27 lathe lathe that i have and i am quite please with it mine as a oil cutting pluid system on it and it made a huge difference in its behavior and cutting capacity in hard material like 304ss the only advantage i can see the bolton have is the crossfeed but aside from that they probably offer similar performance.

[tlfamm]

Power longitudinal feed & power transverse feed - plus variable speed

(assuming budget permits ...)

link:

http://www.machinetoolonline.com/PM-1127-VF.html

[DarbinCo]

I too am looking at the 1127VF
Lots of options on this machine that others dont have, costs more but.....