Small metal Lathes / IE 350 to 50W machines

[dudz]

Tour a metaux VERNIER Équipements Industriels Ardèche - leboncoin.fr

Example

[Swarfing]

That would be fantastic but has the same crappy spindle nose fitment as mine which is an A1-4 (direct nose). Chucks are impossible to find at a reasonable cost. But if you can get it for the right price then you could factor that in. Good things about it is the middle bit is a scrap bin with a coolant pump under neath. You would need two VFD's to run it and that would cost you another £150ish to add. Ask him what the lowest he would take for it and mention the problem of obtaining chucks and upgrading it to run on a single supply?

[Swarfing]

Oh forgot to mention it only has a 25mm hole through the spindle which can be a limiting factor? also the tailstock suffer from wear apart from that they are solid

[Swarfing]

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The yahoo group linked at the bottom is mine and very few in the uk have joined?

[dudz]

TOUR METAUX NEUF capacité de tournage 250mm Équipements Industriels Ille-et-Vilaine - leboncoin.fr

Tour a métaux Outillage - Matériaux 2nd-oeuvre Gard - leboncoin.fr

Tour a metaux CELTIC 12 banc court Équipements Industriels Pas-de-Calais - leboncoin.fr

Some more exaples of what I can find on Leboncoin.fr , The first one being new. I dont really want to spend more than 500 Euros for a complete machine.

[bikepete]

Of those three the second (Star) lathe looks by far the nicest - most pricey too of course.

The first on your list is a generic Chinese hobby lathe - 125 kg, so a step up from a C3 but still no comparison to the big boys in the other links. Available from several sellers no doubt, for much the same price. For just a bit more money you could get the (heavier) Arc version with tooling bundle:

Model Super C6 Lathe - Arc Euro Trade

but it's twice your budget anyway...

You may be pushing it to get anything decent for 500 euros - maybe a plain turning lathe (without screwcutting capacity) perhaps? Or something very knackered. Or you might have to just get lucky (personal connections/putting word around locally might find you the best deal - I'm sure most sales don't get advertised.)

[JAZZCNC]

I would go snatch that Star up before it's gone, thats a very nice and capable Lathe for that money.