KBC 1340 lathe

[Skimpass]

Looking for info on a KBC GRIP-1340G lathe. Are they decent? Should I keep looking for old heavy iron while I get by with this?

I have already bought the machine, moving it tomorrow. I got the lath and a stand alone smithy mill plus several tool boxes worth of tooling, starrett tools, mitutoyo tools, rotary tables, hundreds of taps, over 1,000 drill bits, endmills, 2 5 gal bucks of HSS .... id say a solid $8-10k or more just in tooling. Snagged it all for $2,000, tooling and both machines.

My past machines were a 12” atlas and a SB 9b. I restored them both but really looking forward to a larger 220v machine.

 

[Aukai]

That's a huge haul

 

[NCjeeper]

Man did you score. The lathe looks like your standard import 13x40. It should work well for you.

 

[matthewsx]

You most definitely suck.

 

[Skimpass]

That's a huge haul

There are still 2 large full tool boxes I have to pick up with the machines. I have listed some starrett stuff on ebay that i won’t be needing. There were 3 starrett lathe levels, 2 of them 12”

 

[Bob Korves]

I have that same lathe with a different label. They are good machines... Nice score on all of that stuff!

 

[Skimpass]

I got them home, now to unload them.

 

[Skimpass]

I have that same lathe with a different label. They are good machines... Nice score on all of that stuff!

Is 28tpi the only standard thread yours does?

 

[Bob Korves]

Is 28tpi the only standard thread yours does?

Huh???
Absolutely not! Lathes need to cut a whole bunch of threads, both English and metric, to be useful in a hobby shop. Something would have to be jammed or broken or missing to only be able to cut one thread pitch. The lathe is worthless without a useful collection of thread pitches, easily changed as needed. Some smaller and cheaper and older lathes require manually changing gears in a train between spindle drive gears and carriage driven gears for each different thread pitch, which works just fine, just takes longer to setup for a different thread pitch.

 

[Bob Korves]

This is the lathe I have:

Buy KLS-1340A Manual Economy Lathes - Kent Industrial USA

2 HP main spindle motor 8 speeds, all geared headstock Jog button for easy gear changes Hardened and ground gears and bedways Foot brake and T-Slot compound Inch/metric reading on dials Inch/metric ruler on tailstock quill ISO 9001 certified manufacturer

www.kentusa.com