Hi
I went and looked at this lathe to day and liked it. It's a little bigger than we were looking for but that's usually better than to small. This is the first one of these I have seen so I'd like opinions. I did a search but couldn't find much info on them. Here is what I saw:
There seemed to be two back gears and a direct belt drive coming from the main transmission. So it looked like 18 speeds with the six top speeds belt drive to the spindle. I liked that set up. The feeds seemed to work fine. I could not get the rapids to work. It looked like the rapids used the same feed rod but maybe a small motor at the tailstock end? How should the rapids work?
I would need to get use to the controls but overall I liked the layout
What would be the weight of this lathe?
What will it do as far as thread types?
Any general info about it would be great.
Thanks
Andy
I went and looked at this lathe to day and liked it. It's a little bigger than we were looking for but that's usually better than to small. This is the first one of these I have seen so I'd like opinions. I did a search but couldn't find much info on them. Here is what I saw:
There seemed to be two back gears and a direct belt drive coming from the main transmission. So it looked like 18 speeds with the six top speeds belt drive to the spindle. I liked that set up. The feeds seemed to work fine. I could not get the rapids to work. It looked like the rapids used the same feed rod but maybe a small motor at the tailstock end? How should the rapids work?
I would need to get use to the controls but overall I liked the layout
What would be the weight of this lathe?
What will it do as far as thread types?
Any general info about it would be great.
Thanks
Andy