On Sat, 15 May 2004 04:42:04 -0400, Gary Coffman
brought forth from the murky depths:

On Sat, 15 May 2004 04:05:49 GMT, "Steve Koschmann" wrote:
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My question is has anyone in this newsgroup used the Sakai lathe, or have
any comments on it?

If I recall correctly, that lathe has always been a Korean made machine.
Darn nice one too. Sakai was just slapping their name on it. When Sakai
withdrew from the US market, the metric version of the machine remained
available in Europe for some time (maybe still is).

There have been rumors for a couple of years that the Koreans wanted to
directly market the inch version in the US, but there was some sort of problem
preventing them from doing so. I don't know what that was. Anyway, if they've
sorted that out and want to re-enter the US market with the inch version, I'm
sure there will be some flush hobby folks who want a classy mini-lathe, and it
certainly is that.

I've seen Czech-made woodworking machinery and figure they also
make metalworking machines. What do you guys think of that source?
Any machines in particular you like?


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