Just as a matter of interest
Im interested in what members think are the best, strongest and most powerful real life machine tools, for example we have a Poreba lathe it has an 800mm chuck and a 700mm swing over the saddle and is 5000mm between centres and a 60hp main spindle motor, although this is a fairly large machine it never misses a beat and regularly ploughs 12mm a side off bent nasty stainless forgings, it never goes wrong and it never seems to strain, infact the tips we use give up long before the machine ever would(and we use big snmg 19mm tips)
As I said was just wondering what other members thought, I personally don't think you could buy a more relaiable or stronger machine tool than a Poreba
Cheers
Tim