FWW Review of Heavy-Duty Lathes

Why no Oneway machines? Or Delta for that matter.

Quote:

"Oneway wasn't represented because it doesn't make a lathe comparible in size and price with the others I tested. Delta wasn't able to provide its 46-755X lathe for testing."

Another quote:

"The latest crop of heavy-duty lathes typically comes with electronic speed control, a 16-in. or 20-in. swing (the largest bowl blank the machine can accomodate), a bed measuring 42 in. between centers, plus beefier spindles and the torque needed to turn large workpieces. Prices range from $1,200 to $3,200."

Or Woodtek

real simple - the author has no idea what heavy duty means - mid sized lathes like the stubby are omitted, and of course none of the large lathes are listed - none of these lathes will turn over 36 inches inboard, so I wouldn't consider them more than "small" - I'd personally say that 3 to 4 feet inboard is medium, and 4 to 8 feet inboard is large, and above that is huge - but then again, I don't buy this magazine so why shoudl they care about my opinion.

by the way, my lathe is a "mid sized" >> >>

They price capped off, so the Stubs, Vicmarc, Robust, etc were not included.

yeah, but only 20 inches swing between centers - that's a midi-lathe, and the 42 inch length suggests they are thinking spindles - if you are making baluisters for a stairway, a 20 inch swing over bed is fine, but if you are turning bowls, or even more so, platters, it is not. - oh, and did you notice that the "bed" measures 42 inches - doesn't hint how long a piece of wood you could actually put in there - maybe the tailstock uses up 6, or 8, or more inches, but what do you expect from a magazine? " snip

Have you ever checked the between centers for the Teknatool lathes they did review?

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, but what do you expect from a magazine?

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To pay for all that advertising ???, and those advertisers are maaaybe given preferential treatment, like skewing the categories maaaybe ???.

"Global warming" ?? , are they farming in GREENLAND yet, like they did a few hundred years ago, how'd they have warmed up the Earth without SUVs ???, Also wonder how they cooled things OFF, hardly by jacking up the price of fuel I would think.