On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:36:04 -0800 (PST)
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Being sold by someone who does not know anything about lathes or
tools. Example: "Designed to cut up to four foot table tops, and
will cut up to four foot bowls. The distance between centers is 50
inches." They are mixing up swing (16" I guess) with between
centers. No sure what they mean by this: "motor 1 1/5 hp 1 phase
220V or 3 hp 3 phase option." 3 phase motors with a VFD take single
phase on the intake and create 3 phase to make the motor run. Not
sure you can rewire the VFD to input 3 phase and output 3 phase for
the motor. And I am sure motors do not double in power if they can
be switched from 1 phase to 3 phase as stated here with the 1.5 to 3
hp. Motors cannot be switched from single to three, but...

lot of possibilities

maybe the widow or offspring is selling it


but it may have an outboard setup to do large shapes but not sure

not sure about the stats and if i was interested in that lathe i
would do my own research anyway

some vfds are very flexible in what you can do but the ones i have looked
at lately are usually single phase in or three phase in but not both