Derek Hartzell wrote:
: I have a hunch that the shipping is the bugaboo on why the legs are being
: cancelled. They are probably over the weight for UPS and involve shipping
: by freight carriers and more logistics since they are not as familiar with
: all addresses. So in some cases shipping could match the cost of the legs.
: If bought with the lathe and shipped together, the costs might be
: acceptable.

Mine cost about a hundred dollars to be shipped, and I'm pretty far away
from West Virginia. If the carrier had a local dock, it would have been
$70.


What I heard from KMS Tools is that cast iron in general has gotten more
expensive, and the cancellation of the Nova legs was due to
that price increase.

-- Andy Barss