Rivett Lathe

[dave enrico]

hello everyone
for awhile ive been looking for a lathe for my home shop,ive found a rivett lathe model 9 18,not a great price but ok ( 600,00 ) i know nothing about this lathe so opinions will be appreciated,it has a collet closer and milling attach but no chuck,any opinions dave

 

[wrmiller]

I've not owned or driven one, but from what I have been told, they are very good quality and very accurate.

 

[Uglydog]

This is a great thread:
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/need-some-insight-on-rivett-lathes.39471/#post-339346

Daryl
MN

 

[brino]

....and some more info here:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/rivett/index.html

-brino

 

[kd4gij]

And we need pictures. We like tool porn.

 

[Bob Korves]

I now have TWO machinist friends with Rivett 608 lathes, both close by. Lucky baztuds...

 

[Dorn]

A Rivett 608 in great shape sold at the Cabin Fever auction with LOTS of extra tooling for about $1,400. As far as I was concerned that guy got the best deal in the show.

 

[John_Dennis]

I met a guy once who had a Rivvett. He told me that the tailstock was not Morse Taper. I told him he should just make a new tailstock ram instead of trying to work around that. I don't know if that is a common problem with Rivetts or just his machine. They are supposed to be top notch machines like Hardinge.