Hello everyone. I recently joined this forum and this is my first post and may be I can post something useful since I got a PM1022V a few days ago (I am in the process of cleaning the machine.) I never used a lathe before and did a lot researching and decided on either Grizzly G0602 or PM1022V. I also looked into to PM1127 but decided against it because it was too heavy and too big for my small garage.
For me, the main advantage of PM1022 V over G0602 are:
-Power cross feed
-Variable speed DC motor
-Half nut is not used for powerfeed. There is a key cut into to the lead screw for driving a worm gear for both longitudinal and cross feed. From what I can tell, G0602 uses the half nut for both powerfeed and threading.
The main advantage of G0602 is that there is more threading option. PM1022V only has 18 imperial and 8 metric threading capability (although the spec indicates 21 imperial and 18 metric which are wrong).
Paul
For me, the main advantage of PM1022 V over G0602 are:
-Power cross feed
-Variable speed DC motor
-Half nut is not used for powerfeed. There is a key cut into to the lead screw for driving a worm gear for both longitudinal and cross feed. From what I can tell, G0602 uses the half nut for both powerfeed and threading.
The main advantage of G0602 is that there is more threading option. PM1022V only has 18 imperial and 8 metric threading capability (although the spec indicates 21 imperial and 18 metric which are wrong).
Paul