2nd Merts opinion.
Im in Barcelona, Spain., and paid about 400� for a 350 mm 7x14, maybe 7
years ago.
Have about 0.006 mm TIR, which is very good, imo.
Put a 125 mm 4-jay independent chuck on it, and very happy with it.
ALL my work, or 99%, in steels.
Very good results, using proper (CCMT) carbide inserts almost
exclusively.
I use a BXA toolpost, and 16 mm toolholders, from Chronos.
Lathe was cnc, no temporarily used as a polishing lathe only.
Cannot really do big steel workpieces, above 120 mm, and I now have an
industrial 12x for heavy pieces.
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Dunno what others experience, except for the complaints I read
about here,
but the experience I've had with the Chinese 7x lathes, one 7x10 from
HF,
One 7x12 from Homier (RB), and one 7x12 from Grizzly, is that they all
worked much better that I expected from the amount of money I paid, and
continue to do so. I was especially pleased to find out that the 7x12s
are
really 7x14s. Difference of opinion is what horse racing is all about,
however. I don't know how many of these machines are in use in this
country,
let alone others, but adding up all the complaints would seem to
indicate a
very small percentage, and surely some of that would be from some who
do not
realize that they are looking in the mirror. To expect less than half a
tenth runout from a $400 7x12 lathe seems unrealistic to me. Paying
what a
machine with guaranteed half-a-tenth runout would cost, is equally
unrealistic, I'm a retired small town schoolteacher. Rejoice &
learn.
Mert
