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Help with selecting bench top lathe and vertical mill
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<blockquote data-quote="257X50" data-source="post: 2026842" data-attributes="member: 67903"><p>Look at used. Spend the money to take a machine rebuilder along. Maybe $75 an hour.</p><p>can tell you what is wrong. What can be fixed. And what can't.</p><p>cheap insurance.</p><p>I got a Graziano. Most folks never heard of them. Dual ways. Top for tailstock and covered ways kept clean. 4 HP. 13x36......2400 lbs I think. 2000 rpm.</p><p>spent $5000 20 years ago. Worth it. Now owned by Deckel.......</p><p></p><p>most don't need that much.</p><p>a lighter lathe can be stiffened.</p><p>rockwell makes a down sized Bridgeport takes up less room and used R8 collets. Watch out for mills that don't use them. You can pay $100 each for collets ...if you can find them.</p><p>So you don't know all the machines out there.......lathes.uk. Spend an enjoyable afternoon and evening reading.</p><p>PracticalMachinist is a great forum. A pro forum. If you bring up Chinese machines the thread will be locked.</p><p>but they will answer real questions. These guys have made everything in the world God didnt.</p><p>Saw a thread where a guy trepanned a hole 50' deep....13" in diameter</p><p>Place always amazes me. Another was getting a 25' Blanchard grinder</p><p>Keep asking questions!!!!!!!!!</p><p>You know you are a machinist when you know 10% of what you THOUGHT you knew 10 years ago</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="257X50, post: 2026842, member: 67903"] Look at used. Spend the money to take a machine rebuilder along. Maybe $75 an hour. can tell you what is wrong. What can be fixed. And what can’t. cheap insurance. I got a Graziano. Most folks never heard of them. Dual ways. Top for tailstock and covered ways kept clean. 4 HP. 13x36......2400 lbs I think. 2000 rpm. spent $5000 20 years ago. Worth it. Now owned by Deckel....... most don’t need that much. a lighter lathe can be stiffened. rockwell makes a down sized Bridgeport takes up less room and used R8 collets. Watch out for mills that don’t use them. You can pay $100 each for collets ...if you can find them. So you don’t know all the machines out there.......lathes.uk. Spend an enjoyable afternoon and evening reading. PracticalMachinist is a great forum. A pro forum. If you bring up Chinese machines the thread will be locked. but they will answer real questions. These guys have made everything in the world God didnt. Saw a thread where a guy trepanned a hole 50’ deep....13” in diameter Place always amazes me. Another was getting a 25’ Blanchard grinder Keep asking questions!!!!!!!!! You know you are a machinist when you know 10% of what you THOUGHT you knew 10 years ago [/QUOTE]
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