Weiss lathes – any experiences?

Weiss lathes – any experiences?

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9 April 2010 at 15:00 #50551
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Seriously considering a Weiss ‘benchtop’ (i.e. step up from mini) lathe. Any experiences? Specifically, looking at the 250V . It’s an MT4-spindled, 750W single phase motored, variable speed job. The more I use my Sieg C3, the more jobs I find that won’t fit, or I wish I could rough the metal faster…
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9 April 2010 at 15:00 #16546
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9 April 2010 at 17:26 #50554
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There’s a guy on Model Engineers Clearing house whos got the 280VF goes buy the name of Miner or hes also on Home Model Engine Machinist by the name of Pete.

They are similar to the Warco/Chester/RDG/Engineers toolroom/ Amadeal/ Optium/etc as they are all the similar basic lathe but spec and build can vary a bit between them. I’ve got the Warco 280VF and am happy with it.

The Torque can drop a bit when turning large diameters at slower speeds eg 9″ iron castings but mine will take 0.100″ depth of cut in 1″ steel bar.

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10 April 2010 at 05:19 #50576
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Good tip about the Warco equivalent. I found a review here: http://cign.org/lathe.html.
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