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Looks like I was lucky. I ordered the Axminster AT508WL lathe last Tuesday and paid £3000. As it`s supposed to be delivered tomorrow I just went onto the website to check the footprint / dimensions to prepare the workshop, and noticed the price is now £3500 !!!

Thank you for the info CHJ. I was told that others had this noise problem with similar lathes, and apparently it`s the pulleys` wear and tear where they sit on the shaft. The metal (aluminium ?) the pulleys are made of seems to be softer than the shaft, so they will have a small amount of...

Hi again, thank you for all your replies ! Looks like this one is quite different from the "standard" version. I do suspect someone changed the original one-belt set-up to this one, for whatever reason. Last night I literally couldn`t sleep as it really bothered me that I didn`t understand how...

Seemingly the photo didn`t upload, I hope it works this time.

Hello, I`m new to this forum and reasonably new to wood turning. Also I`m no engineer, but believe I can understand basic mechanical problems, but just now I`m baffled ! Apologies for the long description, but it might avoid lots of questions if I go a bit into detail. A couple of years ago I...