Looking for a new lathe

[gwilson]

The Promasters that MSC used to sell were Romanian.

 

[oinotnasiul]

Where do they claim that? Lathes | Manual Lathe | Manual Lathes I just spent 5 minutes looking. You would be hard pressed to find a country of origin for any of their lathes.

I think you will find they are Bulgarian and Taiwanese.

Phil.

That's what they claim in the " CONTACT US" area on their web page.

 

[robmc]

My friend's lathe is nothing like that. That looks like a cheap chiwan clone. My friend's looks more like a Sharp which is a copy of an HLV.

His lathe looks more like this:

That's a $16,000, 3,500lb lathe made by one the best manufacturers in Taiwan. It isn't a chi com home machine piece of junk.

 

[oinotnasiul]

I have to bite my tongue, I contact the people of SUMMIT and they admit that their machines are made on CHINA and KENT too.