Thread: Advice on purchasing lathe

wow it seems everyone manufacturer has made a bar bed lathe before and that one is just superb what a great buy you got! post some pic's of what you make latter

Patrick

Seems to be a pretty sturdy lathe...should get many years of use from it

Well there's about $550 worth of tooling there if you bought it new. If the headstock and tailstock are fitted with points that are straight and that come together within 0.5mm lateral displacement and the tail stock works OK without slop go for it. A set of new headstock bearings for that lathe is quite low as they are automotive wheel bearings so even if you have to replace them its a minor expense. That's a lathe quite good enough for semi professional work if its in good order.

Old Pete

Hmm, down the track you may want to add a bit of ballast to the legs. They look a tad narrow, seeing they are stell it ownt be a drama to do so.

good buy, better than my first buy.

Hi Jan. Good buy!! Lots of fun to be had now.

Love the work you have shown us.

Is that Jan as in Jan or Jan as in Yarn?

Thanks guys - it is very exciting. The lathe looks to be narrow at the base, but can be bolted to the floor (which I plan on doing once I'm sure I have it in the right place!). The accessories are all in really good order and the tailstock and headpiece do line up nicely. There is a bit of noise in the bearings, so it's good to know that this will not be an expensive fix when I need to do it.

And my name is Jan (female) - the photo I use is me at four years old fixing the hill trolley! Now that was a few centuries ago, but my love of fixing things and working with wood has stayed with me all that time. This is just another expression of that interest. the rest of my shed is filled with a bench saw, thicknesser/planer, bandsaw, linisher, drop saw, router table, work benches and innumerable hand tools ... now I am lucky enough to add a lathe to the setup.