On 4 Feb 2015, at 10:52, andy pugh wrote: > 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. > Yes; that's my impression too. The market for that kind of lathe now seems to be the 'fully refurbished' manual lathes at relatively breathtaking cost (very old refurbished Hardinge HLV-H lathes seem to fetch around the 10K GBP = 16K USD). Still a gap in the small to mid range CNC lathes, though. I find the industrial ones too big and heavy for my workshop (I need to be able to get more than just the one machine in the workspace), and the Tormach-sized lathes are few and far between (and also quite expensive at around 14.5K GBP = 22K USD in the UK, delivered, tax paid, but I shouldn't complain about that).
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