Hi everybody
This is my first post here.
I purchased an SC2 recently from APTC and it came with an 80 mm SC Chuck. I phoned ARCEURO and ordered a 100mm SC chuck, they told me that I would need to change the bearings if I wanted to use a 100mm chuck on the SC2-despite it being a brand new lathe...
A jubilee lathe is perfectly adequate. £500 should get you a single phase example easy enough. If you look hard enough you might find a Graduate. Both these machines are built to last. The Grad is probably the better of the two due to the full cast iron construction. The jubilee has a steel...
It's very annoying that you have to give screwfix so much info to be able to buy something. Without a bank account or email I doubt whether they would serve you!!