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Posted: 4/6/2011 6:55:17 PM EDT
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Has anyone every bought anything from these guys? I'm interested in some things they offer, but I also don't want complete crap. At this price point I am all but sure it's chinese, but for a home workshop how far wrong could their parallels be? Worst case is that you identify some that are bad. Any thoughts or experiences? |
| I bought my Clausing lathe from him a couple years ago. I've bought other tooling from him, and I'm happy with the things I've bought. Yes it's mostly Chinese, except that he also sells a lot of used equipment, especially South Bend parts. He's a quick shipper and good with shipping notices. My latest order went in Sat @ midnight and I got it today. |
| Another place to check out is http://www.littlemachineshop.com/, pretty good stuff and the prices aren't too bad, I've even used the 123 blocks and stuff from enco and they arent bad. |
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Another place to check out is http://www.littlemachineshop.com/, pretty good stuff and the prices aren't too bad, I've even used the 123 blocks and stuff from enco and they arent bad. You have this equipment ? Would like to talk to you if you do ? |
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Another place to check out is http://www.littlemachineshop.com/, pretty good stuff and the prices aren't too bad, I've even used the 123 blocks and stuff from enco and they arent bad. You have this equipment ? Would like to talk to you if you do ? What equipment are you referring to? |
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Another place to check out is http://www.littlemachineshop.com/, pretty good stuff and the prices aren't too bad, I've even used the 123 blocks and stuff from enco and they arent bad. You have this equipment ? Would like to talk to you if you do ? What equipment are you referring to? Mini Mill and or a Mini Lathe ? have one |
| No sorry, I have 3 lathes and 3 mills, but nothing that small, I have worked on a smithy mill/drill/lathe a few times and it seemed great, debating buying one sooner or later, but I already have a 3,800 sq ft shop that's so full of machinery and tooling that I can hardly walk around, going to go through it all in a few months and give a bunch of stuff away, a few hydraulic and knuckle presses might go and a big mill that has more wires that are cut than I know what to do with. As for the other mini mills, I don't know much about them. |
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Quoted: Shars.com has some very good prices and good service. It is Chinese made, but I have had good luck with it in my home shop. Second on the Shars recommendation. Their stuff is decent quality, no frills tools & supplies. BTW, they sell on eBay as member "discount_machine". Have fun!! |
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I have a mini-lathe. I guess it's ok if you want to turn out a small part here and there. My projects ended up getting to the point where, after screwing up a bunch of parts and having to start over, I decided to hire professionals to screw up parts and start over for me. The advantage of having your own tooling is that you can make your part mid-project and have it sooner. I think the mini-lathe is ok if you don't need to hold tolerances of less than about 0.005 and you can handle the tail-stock and chucks being slightly off-center. I found it useful for making things like pulleys, small motor drives, spacers, bushings and other misc. small parts that didn't exist.
Keep in mind though, that for around the same price as new mini-machineshop stuff, you can buy good used professional equipment; the downsize is that it's big and you'll need to put it somewhere. |
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I have a mini-lathe. I guess it's ok if you want to turn out a small part here and there. My projects ended up getting to the point where, after screwing up a bunch of parts and having to start over, I decided to hire professionals to screw up parts and start over for me. The advantage of having your own tooling is that you can make your part mid-project and have it sooner. I think the mini-lathe is ok if you don't need to hold tolerances of less than about 0.005 and you can handle the tail-stock and chucks being slightly off-center. I found it useful for making things like pulleys, small motor drives, spacers, bushings and other misc. small parts that didn't exist. Keep in mind though, that for around the same price as new mini-machineshop stuff, you can buy good used professional equipment; the downsize is that it's big and you'll need to put it somewhere. I've heard the same thing about Mini-lathes and Mills, my experience, on the smithy granite, tolorances could be held easily within .001", but for the price of a smithy granite, you could almost buy a larger Mill and lathe. I don't have any experience with the cheaper line smithy offers. I'd also like to have one just for the heck of it, right now the smallest lathe I own is a old 10" clausing. |
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I have a mini-lathe. I guess it's ok if you want to turn out a small part here and there. My projects ended up getting to the point where, after screwing up a bunch of parts and having to start over, I decided to hire professionals to screw up parts and start over for me. The advantage of having your own tooling is that you can make your part mid-project and have it sooner. I think the mini-lathe is ok if you don't need to hold tolerances of less than about 0.005 and you can handle the tail-stock and chucks being slightly off-center. I found it useful for making things like pulleys, small motor drives, spacers, bushings and other misc. small parts that didn't exist. Keep in mind though, that for around the same price as new mini-machineshop stuff, you can buy good used professional equipment; the downsize is that it's big and you'll need to put it somewhere. Just small stuff with both , I like the fact that it has no gears and if you dont take a lot off in one pass should be ok but if you do will the belt hang up and make a bigger mess or just go slower on the pass ? |
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