Hello All,

Hugh here. New to this forum, a member of Homemodelenginebuilders and various other model engineering groups.

I currently have a Seig SX1L (SX1 with extended table travel) to fettle my steam engine parts and am looking to upgrade.
I'd love a Bridgeport clone, or even an original. They were always my favourite mills when I was in the trade. So versatile. But my workshop space won't accommodate such a large footprint, and three phase power is of the question so I'm researching larger benchtop mills.
IMO, the Seigs are a little over priced for the build quality that they offer and frankly, a small Opti, or HF type looks to be more robust. Yes, I know that they build quality is probably more or less equivalent to the Seigs, but the prices are more attractive.

I'm fully expecting to pay between AUD2k-3k for a decent upgrade to what I have now. In my internet trawling I saw these on ebay...

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Geared-H...e6e4%7Ciid%3A1

The price looks good and the specs also. The features seem to be very seventies. The fit and finish reminiscent of seventies Taiwanese machines and that's fine by me. My 1977 Taiwanese Lathe is built like a Swiss watch on steroids.

I'm asking if anyone has any experience with this machine as I can't find the same machine anywhere else on the internet.

Good or Bad feedback is fine as long as it's objective.

Cheers,

Hugh


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