On 4 February 2015 at 10:32, Marcus Bowman <marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Sadly, it is now very difficult indeed to buy a really high spec quality tool > of almost any sort, because, as customers, we have shot ourselves in the > foot. If enough people buy cheap tools made of cheese, the manufacturers of > quality high-spec tools will go out of business (as most of them have). But > its part of an evolutionary process, and a cycle which goes on continually > for all products.
It is interesting to read lathes.co.uk and see that there have always been many really quite cheap and nasty lathes out there as well as the nice ones. See for example http://www.lathes.co.uk/flexy/ Apparently you can still buy a brand new Monarch 10EE, but they cost $100k or thereabouts. I suspect that the market for manual lathes of production manufacturing quality is now truly tiny. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
