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If your budget was 15-20K and you wanted to produce precision metal parts, then I would say the Tormach would be your choice. However, for woodworking you need certain features like a large swing...

I see the original poster is marked as " banned" Anyone know why?

Here's the text of a post I made back in June of 2008 when they first introduced the duallity lathe

"Looks like this is a company with its sights set on the home shop market. This may be a mis...

Idea and price both- First, if you read back on the comments when this first came out, you will see that people immediately recognized that this was nothing more than a Chinese lathe sitting on the...

Funny, when they first introduced the Duality lathe I called it a mistake- 12-1300.00 bucks for a 300.00 7 X 10 mini lathe that you had to hoist on and off your mill table. The whole concept died...

My machine has very little lash- about 0.002" on that gear, there is a shim on each side. I suspect you have misplaced the 2 shims that were there- They probably have a bunch of shims of varying...

I bought one of the Tri-Powers on the closeout special as well. I thought it was a super deal, as the price was 2000.00 less than the normal price. I had no issues with shipping or delivery.
When...

Not sure what happened to the above link, but following is another- hope it doesn't get scrambled.

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Flathead- why do you open subjects, make comments and then...

Smithy and Harbor Freight machines come from the same factory-
check it out for yourself

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I installed one of those Chinese made magnetic DRO units on a Harbor Freight 12 X 36, which is just like the Smithy. Installation was pretty easy- drill and tap some holes and fabricate shields etc....

I agree with Smallblock on this one. You've got yourself a nice beginning package there for a cheap price. With a little maintainance it will be a good starter machine. I bought a used quadra lift...

I had a Quadralift machine which was equipped with the traditional style compound. When I bought my Tri-Power it came with the " hang off the side" style of compound. It caught me by surprise as...

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The older machines were designed with the mounting points for the Canadian made CBX system. To install the Jenix, you will need some simple adaptors. Get some 5mm or 10-32 threaded rod and nuts and...

Your budget is pretty small for what you are asking ( couldn't even afford the " T " in budget)- seriously, when you add zeros behind the decimal point under accuracy, you end up adding zeroes to...

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When I bought my used quadra lift I spoke to JT quite a few times about building a bridge mill upgrade. He sent me this picture of one design he did in the 90's. Its pretty simple, using the...

Its been a year now- whatever happened to the TV show? Did you get your machine?

Good news all around- you're happy over here and since the moderator emptied the dumpster, people over on the shoptask forum are happy too.

Since the guy had to have his buddy do all his whining, he doesn't come across as the "sharpest tool in the shed". Maybe he should follow the lead of another "dull cutter" and just give his machine...

The machine in that thread was one of the early style units with the original mill head bolted into a fabricated lift box. My quadra-lift was the same. The newer machines have the mill head casting...

The 17-20 with Quadra Lift can easily be converted to the Bridgemill as well. Not familiar with the Flashcut, but with CNC and ball screws you could have a nice unit for a pretty cheap price. Be...

Yeah- it was an idea that probably sounded good in theory and watching the lights counting down was fun, but its all about timing and rhythm and that varies greatly from one person to another. In...

There was one of those units on my Quadra Lift when I bought it. Its a clever but sort of off the wall design. It has a little circuit board with a counter chip in the circuitry. It uses a 12 volt...

I agree with that- its a characteristic of everyone worldwide right down to the Arab woman buying rice in the local market. We all look for the best price first and the country of origin is usually...

I also bought a used Quadra Lift and JT warned me to look for the threading gears- sure enough they were not in the tool box, so the owner and I started looking around and they were in another...

I think you are right on the money. Those old pictures were pulled right off the shoptask website. He bought one of those 1800.00 closeout machines and spray canned it green.