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06-29-2006, 07:32 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
Posts: 1,208
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Time for a new lathe..any suggestions?
My piece of crap lathe broke for the 3rd time in 6 months, lathe isn't even 2 years old.....time for a Jet I think.....what do you guys recommend? Thanks, Jay
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06-29-2006, 07:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
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low & slow 37
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06-29-2006, 08:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,442
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I've turned a bunch of stuff on my Jet mini (no bed extension). Also have the Grizzly 8690. Decent lathe, Jet is better. No problems out of either lathe.
Jigman
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06-29-2006, 08:30 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,547
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jet is a great co. to deal with- buy the jet.
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06-29-2006, 10:05 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Ditto on the jet. Mine has run without problems for 3 years and runs as smooth and quiet as day 1.
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" Choose Life "
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06-29-2006, 10:28 PM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
Posts: 1,223
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Jet all the way.
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06-30-2006, 10:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: needham, ma
Posts: 53
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I bought an old shopsmith just for the lathe. It is great. I paid
$250. Well worth it.
john
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07-01-2006, 09:55 AM
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WTF
Join Date: May 2004
Location: wareham
Posts: 1,367
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i have the jet, wish i got the delta.
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07-03-2006, 05:38 AM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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I'd get an old used cast iron behemoth, check and grease the bearings in the headstock, put whateer you want on it for a drive and turn away....
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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07-03-2006, 09:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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Originally Posted by Fishpart
I'd get an old used cast iron behemoth, check and grease the bearings in the headstock, put whateer you want on it for a drive and turn away....
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07-03-2006, 07:16 PM
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wishin' i was fishin'
Join Date: May 2001
Location: toooo far from the beach !!
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just wondering ??
what lathe did ya have that broke ?
derf
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07-04-2006, 06:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 31
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Powermatic 3520 with a Vega Duplicator....
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Take some air out of those tires.
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07-04-2006, 07:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
Posts: 1,362
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Originally Posted by JayR
Powermatic 3520 with a Vega Duplicator....
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So does Powermatic give away a free mirror with every purchase?  |
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07-04-2006, 07:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 31
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So does Powermatic give away a free mirror with every purchase? |
No, Lowe's does that.....
It's a medicine cabinet that I keep my tools in. One of the mirrored doors was cracked and they gave it to me.
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Take some air out of those tires.
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07-05-2006, 09:12 AM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
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