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Morning all, Well, just an update from me , the Chinese wonder lathe never arrived, battling for my money back , but got sorted in the end . I bought the Axminster AT 1416 lathe , which was a return item and after a few initial little problems is works sound. And what a different kettle of fish...

Good morning all, Thank you that is a good point you made . It was too good to be true and as all bad stories end , the lathe never arrived .Nor did any replies from the seller. What annoys me most is that eBay is so blind and not spot things like that and does anything about it! Some of us...

Good morning again, Yes, Axminster has a return machine in stock and I reserved it just in case. But what is the AT 1416 like and how reliable is it ? The Chninese wonder bargain machine is due but arrived yet, I wonder why? Thanks again

Hi again, That is a good suggestion! I did phone Axminster, I spoke to sales person, he was not so clue up the lathe you are suggesting, he just ask me how much and often I will use the lathe so he commend that this machine was not suitable! He recommended a more expensive machine , which was...

Good morning, Yes, that is worrying me , 10 machines of the same kind were on offer, all one after each other and all sellers had joint eBay the day before ! I contacted eBay and they said not to worry about it, it will be fine , so I put the money down for it but never heard from the seller...

Hello again, Yes, that is the beast! It is the price that surprised me, definitely a lot of lathe for the money, that is if the seller on eBay is not pulling a fast one , though! This is just in my budget, can not afford more then £ 500, so pretty limited . The other bad news is , that my DML 24...

Good evening all, I have just joint this web site , I have started wood turning three months ago. My first lathe is a Record power DML 24 Mk2 and I got it second hand. With having use it a lot lately, I quick found some points which I would prefer rather, so I decided to look for another one...