greetings from the Man Cave of Mayhem

[matt merchantParticipant @mattmerchant42413]

afternoon all, long time scale modeller of the plastic kit variety kind of a newbie to this side of the fence but have done the mill, drill and turning dance before as an apprentice engineer who fell by the wayside some 25ish years ago (gotta love the old YT scheme)

anyway the old grey matter started to give off a strange burning smell, new ideas forming as to not buying aftermarket barrels and bits that are sometimes a bit on the extraspensive side. and may well try a few projects outside my usual comfort zone after the bench backlog has cleared a bit. currently eyeing up a SEIG SC2 lathe as I have limited space (and if I'm careful have access to grown up size machine tools at work)

as to sliding the expense past the missus well some nice bespoke items for her 6' x 4' dolls house that's currently the work in progress on my bench will I'm sure ease the nagging.

Matt

[matt merchantParticipant @mattmerchant42413]

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

Welcome Matt. enjoy the forum.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hello Matt

Be aware that there are many different variations on the 'mini lathe', made by boith SEIG and Rull Bull and available in many different colours and specifications from different suppliers.

It's worth shopping around to find a balance of specification and price that matches your needs (most users agree the best 'upgrade' is a brushless DC motor).

Neil

[matt merchantParticipant @mattmerchant42413]

thanks Chris

hi Neil I've been looking at the SC2 being purveyed by arceurotrade which does have the brushless motor, it seems to have pretty much the features I'm looking for and enough accessories available to make it a flexible little tool compared to some of the others ive seen while poking around the machine tool sections of the interweb

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

I'm a looooong way off on the other side of the rock, but from what I read, I would say you won't be too far off if you go for the Seig at Arc.

Ian S C

[John CParticipant @johnc47954]

Hi Matt, private message sent,

John

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