"Rex B" wrote in message
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Someone else posted some info about 9x20s from Samuel Machinery.
They also show a 10x27 for $995 with lots of features and extras. I'd be
pretty interested in that. None of the links pan out, and I did not find a
website.

Of such hopes, dreams, and customer enthusiasm are Internet dollars made. It
makes you wonder, though. There's obviously a market for good, small, solid
$1500 lathes, and $2500 mills. Instead, we have the $1k junk, or the $5000
overflow-your-garage-in-a-heartbeat product lines. More dollars just buys
larger junk, not small, usable machines. What's a home machinist to do? You
can try to build it yourself, of course, but traditional construction --
heavy iron, ground ways -- is not something you can do easily, even starting
with non-junk machines to cut them. Linear motion components are eBay or
other questionable sources, or astronomical, again with nothing in between.
Actually, that's where I'm starting to look. What's wrong with just bolting
a 10" angle-lock vise or rotary table, with no traditional table, to linear
motion guides? The Kurt vise alone blows the budget, but who's counting?