On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:01:19 GMT, "Bob Powell" wrote:

||The lesson here for newbies is you get what you pay for, and not to avoid
||specific companies or machines but to avoid learning in a vacuum. Use this
||forum or a school or whatever to meet someone face to face and ask for help
||or compare notes. The risk of a defect that only an experienced hand will
||recognize is there with any used machine and to some degree with almost any
||new machine.

While this forum is a great source of information for prospective buyers of
machine tools, I bet most of us did not stumble onto this NG until after we
bought a machine tool, then went looking for more information on the hobby.
Texas Parts Guy