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Hi,
I'm shopping for a small/med sized lathe that's compact, and sturdy enough for real work. Both of these are 12" class weigh around 1100 lbs. I found these two within my budget, and they're both a good size for my shop.
From what I could tell, just from pics, both of these seem to be decent. The Clausing was reportedly only used by a model maker, and *seems* in very good condition. The features I like about the Taiwanese is the gap bed, and metric threading. Eventually, I'll fit an electric lead screw, so moot point, but nice that it does threading now. The Taiwanese made one is a Tida (not familiar with that brand).
I guess mostly what I'm concerned about is rigidity in a compact machine, condition, and ease of finding parts.
Is it a big deal that the Tida has separate lead and feed screws?
Both of these are remote, so I can't inspect them in person, so have to rely on buyer and pics.
Do you guys think either of these are worth buying, or should I look somewhere else. I can get brand new Grizzly 12x24 for $3800, but that's a lot more than these, and the new ones are Chinese, not Taiwanese, and not sure if that makes a difference.
Thanks
I'm shopping for a small/med sized lathe that's compact, and sturdy enough for real work. Both of these are 12" class weigh around 1100 lbs. I found these two within my budget, and they're both a good size for my shop.
From what I could tell, just from pics, both of these seem to be decent. The Clausing was reportedly only used by a model maker, and *seems* in very good condition. The features I like about the Taiwanese is the gap bed, and metric threading. Eventually, I'll fit an electric lead screw, so moot point, but nice that it does threading now. The Taiwanese made one is a Tida (not familiar with that brand).
I guess mostly what I'm concerned about is rigidity in a compact machine, condition, and ease of finding parts.
Is it a big deal that the Tida has separate lead and feed screws?
Both of these are remote, so I can't inspect them in person, so have to rely on buyer and pics.
Do you guys think either of these are worth buying, or should I look somewhere else. I can get brand new Grizzly 12x24 for $3800, but that's a lot more than these, and the new ones are Chinese, not Taiwanese, and not sure if that makes a difference.
Thanks