On Oct 7, 10:39 am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:50:00 -0700, lathes
wrote:

hi all

has anyone any experience with oil country lathes? anyone suggest
some good, reliable, heavy duty oil country lathes? anyone had any
bad experiences with any manufacturers?
please help as am needing to buy soon.

i have been lookinghttp://www.findamachine.combut could do with some
help.

Give me your specs and Ill dig something up for you.

Manual? CNC?

Ive got a Okuma LS3 I can get pretty cheap. Probably a couple grand,
under power

IRRC it has a 4" spindle bore

Located in Brea, California

Got an Induma manual...probably 10' between centers, 4" bore..tooled,
but will be around $13k

Gunner

Another place to look is http://www.machines4sale.co.uk This site has
machines from leading US and UK suppliers. It also has some user
stories from machine tool users which may be useful.