You're lucky - the closest one to me is in Gillette, WY, which is almost 600 miles away.

Thankfully I have a Menards about 30 miles from me that I pass by often so I had mine shipped to the store for free.

Unfortunately. the shipping (for 4 units) is as much as the cost of the items.

Menards (in the USA) today had the flexible LED goose neck lights on sale (7W) for $3.99 each. I just ordered 20 of them for my shop equipment. They are selling fast so I thought I would pass it along

I have purchased all but one time the longest. The reason is very simple space. In retirement you could find a location may not have room for bigger lathes  so decide on a  8" x 14" and can do

Grizzly G4003 Lathe-modifications to RideTheGearTrain (free online to calculate the change gears needed to cut a thread. I had quite a busy time in the days leading up to Christmas. I had contacts

In in shop was a machinist did haveva fling Damage to electronic devices as raised about Electronic Vernier Calipers and 6 hours of more work and tilling the Forman his high quality Habor Freight

I'm thinking that's referring to a BLDC - brushless DC motor. The Sieg circuitry looks like it's based on a reference design for the Atmel Encoder

What is a "digital motor"? As far as I'm aware, here in Australia the C3P has a 350w brushed motor and the SC3 has a 500w brushless motor. I have not heard of anyone having to replace the brushless

Yes, original motor without any issues. Mine is the original setup prior to the current digital motor. Best regards David

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Wishful thinking! What usually happens is you'll find a project you  really want to do that's bigger than your lathe can handle. That's apparently one of the constants of the universe😉 On one

David, do you have the original motor in your lathe? Has it given you any problems?

So. The maximums which i would ever need to machine would be 25mm steel shafted approximately 280mm long and I would like to be able to make belt grinder pulleys from aluminium,  the largest being

No matter which you get, I'll reccomend getting the following book: https://secure.villagepress.com/store/items/detail/item/3874 Even if you don’t build all the improvements he lays out, it’s a

Don't forget after you have bought the lathe you will need tools, cutting and measuring equipment, this can add up to quite a bit, but at least you can buy them as you need them.

Old Boilermaker, 1 - Any lathe is better than no lathe 2 - Buy the best that your budget allows 3 - Yes, a longer bed is better, and makes life a lot easier, but as said previously you can get

I also agree with a long bed idea. However, take care that the weight increases with the length. I bought a 200x400mm Weiss lathe (100 mm dia. chuck, 400mm between centers). Its weight is

I found myself in a similar situation as yourself, I had a friend who had a marvelous workshop and he would machine things for me at no cost as a friend. Sadly he passes on, só I bought a C3 and

Allen Gentz,Us boilermakers are a dying race that's for sure.