On 25 April 2013 14:39, <kqt4a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the many good opinions but I am going to be squeezed to fit in > something with a footprint as small as the smithy > I have looked several times at the X2/X3's but I have no room for a separate > lathe > Is there a better 3-in-1 than the smithy in the $2000 range
How much turning do you expect to do? And how big? Personally I am more lathe than mill oriented, and so my adequate lathe with a poor quality mill on top is bearable. if you are more mill-oriented then you can actually do a fair bit of turning with a mill, using a tool fixed to the bed, and work in the spindle. I am not convinced that _any_ new machine tools at the $2000 level are worth buying. I would always prefer to spend the same money on something second-hand that has lived an easy life. There was one of these on eBay (UK) recently. http://www.lathes.co.uk/meyerburger/index.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
