Thread: AL50 G Hafco

Instruction manual is still available on the Hare and Forbes web site.

http://images.machineryhouse.com.au/...n%20Manual.pdf



ORDER CODE
L157

Model
AL-50GA

Digital Readout System Fitted
Optional

Quick Change Toolpost Fitted
Optional

Tool Height To Suit
10mm

Distance Between Centres
500mm

Swing Over Bed
230mm

Swing Over Cross-slide
130mm

Centre Height
115mm

Spindle Bore
20mm

Spindle Nose Size or Type
Threaded

Bed Width
115mm

Headstock Spindle Taper
3MT

Tailstock Taper
2MT

Cross Slide Travel
115mm

Compound Slide Travel
50mm

Leadscrew
Imperial

Longitudinal Feed Range (Z-Axis)
0.1 - 0.2mm/rev

Metric Thread Steps & Pitch Range
11 (0.5 - 3mm)

Imperial Thread Steps & TPI Range
27 (8 - 56tpi)

3 Jaw Chuck Diameter
100mm

4 Jaw Chuck Diameter
190mm

Spindle Steps / Speed Range
6 (100 - 1800rpm)

Motor Power
0.55kW / 0.75hp

Voltage
240V

Weight (nett)
105kg

This is the lathe I have now, AL50 G is a gear driven lathe, cheers.

One of our members may have a 9x20 in electronic variable speed model for sale.

If interested send me a PM and I will put you in touch with him.

Sorry guys , my mistake , i ment to ask about the AL 250 G , not the 50 G ! i have a Al 50 GA at present and wish to upgrade to the 250 G , Maybe , was just wanting to know if anyone had info good or bad on this machine , cheers Mark..

Search it via Google,

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Don't know what you searched on but I put al250 in the search box at the top rh corner of the screen and got 7 hits, all relevant.

Quite often people make the mistake of putting too much in the search criteria.

The forum search function works quite well, except for searches on 3 characters.

If you need to do that, use Google and limit your search to this forum:

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