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This is what I bought last year.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/taiwan/
Around here they pop up for sale quite often and are usually priced at $1000usd or $1200cdn. There are many different "brands" but they are basically all the same/similar and afaik made in the same factory. Usually they will come with at least 2 chucks and some tooling. I have used mine for a few different projects and it works well with no issues at all. It runs smooth and I have turned 2" diameter steel stock and it cut smoothly and didn't lack for power - it has a 1hp motor. The only wear item that I changed was the cross-slide nut which was quite worn. I found a new brass nut on ebay that had the same LH acme threads and I turned it to the proper dimensions on the lathe and it works perfectly.
If you found one of these local to you I wouldn't hesitate to go have a look at it.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/taiwan/
Around here they pop up for sale quite often and are usually priced at $1000usd or $1200cdn. There are many different "brands" but they are basically all the same/similar and afaik made in the same factory. Usually they will come with at least 2 chucks and some tooling. I have used mine for a few different projects and it works well with no issues at all. It runs smooth and I have turned 2" diameter steel stock and it cut smoothly and didn't lack for power - it has a 1hp motor. The only wear item that I changed was the cross-slide nut which was quite worn. I found a new brass nut on ebay that had the same LH acme threads and I turned it to the proper dimensions on the lathe and it works perfectly.
If you found one of these local to you I wouldn't hesitate to go have a look at it.