TDegenhart
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2011
- Location
- Geneva Illinois USA
Of the three lathes, I would vote for the Leblond. It is a reasonably sized lathe for what you want to do. Reasonably priced. Close to home. One of the costs acquiring a machine of this size is transportation. If you have to use commercial services, they can easily cost as much as the machine. Three factors. Loading the machine, can the seller do that and at what cost, moving from the seller to your place and unloading/positioning. These are heavy and top heavy machines that can be easily be tipped over if you don't know what your doing.
Looking through some of the photos, the ways of the Leblond appear to be in good to excellent condition, but of course that needs to verified with a visit. One item that is very positive that the Hendy doesn't have is high speed, up to 1800 rpm per specs from Tony's web site. The machine advertised is the Mk 1. See Tony's write up.
LeBlond Dual Drive Lathe
Tom
Looking through some of the photos, the ways of the Leblond appear to be in good to excellent condition, but of course that needs to verified with a visit. One item that is very positive that the Hendy doesn't have is high speed, up to 1800 rpm per specs from Tony's web site. The machine advertised is the Mk 1. See Tony's write up.
LeBlond Dual Drive Lathe
Tom