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Which machine annoys you most?
GeorgeGreek:
My wife...........
George
PekkaNF:
--- Quote from: BillTodd on April 29, 2011, 06:48:23 AM ---The HLV-H tail stock!...
It weighs the better part of 40kg , has a 50 odd square-inch base that, at every opportunity, sucks itself down onto the bed and is a real PITA to move. At times I've had to push it forward with both hands from the side of the lathe.
Hardinge should have extended the carriage rack and fitted the thing with its own traversing wheel.
Bill
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I would love to have that problem.....
I hate the most machines that waste my time or money without any good return. My firsta lathe was french made minilor TR-1:
I bought "Minilor" with some accesories and was planning to buy some more accessories. Buying that petit merde was one of the biggest mistakes on my life. Never trust Frencies - incidently I had Citroën Xantia for years and although it had some excentric engineering it was a nice car and gave me years of joy. Not so rosy experince with the lathe though.
See this: http://www.lathes.co.uk/minilor/index.html
It gives a whole lot more glossy picture of the product than it is in reality. Plastic knobs could be replaced etc. obvious things. It looks quite handsom on the picture, but apron/cross slide, tool holder, tail stock, spindel stoc etc. are made of "Special alloy" or something like that on advertising text. It could be zink or aluminium, but it's pretty miserable stuf for a metal cutting lathe.
It sits middle of the garage not doing anything else, but reminding me not trust any advertising bullshit, "tests" and empty specks. I just might try to make small usefull lathe out of it, but only halfway decent part of it a bed casting, even spindle box should be made out of scrap. Hmm. I do have right size piece of cast iron lying around.
Anyway, this experience has made me very wary of any tool made in france.
Want to swap?
PekkaNF
Rob.Wilson:
Washing machine ,, hoover :coffee:
Rob
Bluechip:
Anything with a Geordie driving it .... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Rob.Wilson:
--- Quote from: Bluechip on February 15, 2012, 11:26:18 AM ---Anything with a Geordie driving it .... :lol: :lol: :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: TWAT :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Rob
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