Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Hello,

I own a legacy Oramental Mill. Most of my turning is done on this device
with a router. The time has come that I need a lathe along with the mill.
Most of my turning will be for spindles. I would very much like to use the
lathe to learn bowl turning. A friend suggested I get the Oneway 1640. It
seems to me that Lathe is way overpriced. Is the OneWay worth the money?
Any opinions on Powermatic lathes? Any suggestions on other lathes that I
might be happy with would sure be appreciated. My budget is $3000 or less
although $2000 would be ideal.


I noticed these lathes weight between 600 and 1000 pounds. Can they be
taken apart to get them into a basement shop?

Thanks

Bob M

Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Hi Bob, consider a Nova 3000 and some tools and accessories, unless the
budget is just for a lathe. Arch

Fortiter,

Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Many retired people subscribing to this groups have worked all their live in
industries and have great knowledge and practical experience about machine
design.
Having said that I wonder what would be the cost of materiel to build a
prototype resembling the Oneway lathe?

"Bob M" wrote in message
t...
Hello,

I own a legacy Oramental Mill. Most of my turning is done on this
device
with a router. The time has come that I need a lathe along with the mill.
Most of my turning will be for spindles. I would very much like to use the
lathe to learn bowl turning. A friend suggested I get the Oneway 1640. It
seems to me that Lathe is way overpriced. Is the OneWay worth the money?
Any opinions on Powermatic lathes? Any suggestions on other lathes that I
might be happy with would sure be appreciated. My budget is $3000 or less
although $2000 would be ideal.


I noticed these lathes weight between 600 and 1000 pounds. Can they be
taken apart to get them into a basement shop?

Thanks

Bob M

Thinking about buying a lathe
 

I have a Oneway 2436 with a 2 hp. Love that rascal.
Check Bernie Mares "Serious Lathe" and the Vicmarks. Both are quality
machines, just not up to the Oneways, course, a lot cheaper too.

Regards,
Lewis



--
Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious.
Richard Feynman


"Bob M" wrote in message
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Hello,

I own a legacy Oramental Mill. Most of my turning is done on this
device
with a router. The time has come that I need a lathe along with the mill.
Most of my turning will be for spindles. I would very much like to use the
lathe to learn bowl turning. A friend suggested I get the Oneway 1640. It
seems to me that Lathe is way overpriced. Is the OneWay worth the money?
Any opinions on Powermatic lathes? Any suggestions on other lathes that I
might be happy with would sure be appreciated. My budget is $3000 or less
although $2000 would be ideal.


I noticed these lathes weight between 600 and 1000 pounds. Can they be
taken apart to get them into a basement shop?

Thanks

Bob M

Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Hello Bob,

Almost any lathe will do an acceptable job of spindle turning if it has enough
swing and enough length and enough power. The Oneway Lathes are excellent and
youpay for that excellence. For what you want to do, a Nova 3000 or a Nova DVR
3000 with enough bed extensions to handle your spindle length needs would be an
excellent choice. Either of them would also handle you bowl turning needs if you
become hooked on bowl turning. I had a Nova 3000 for several years and now have
a Nova DVR 3000 with an added on bed extension. Gives me a 16" swing over the
bed and 44" between centers with about a two horsepower motor to power
everything.

Welcome to the world of woodturning.

Fred Holder
http://www.fholder.com/

In article , Bob M says...

Hello,

I own a legacy Oramental Mill. Most of my turning is done on this device
with a router. The time has come that I need a lathe along with the mill.
Most of my turning will be for spindles. I would very much like to use the
lathe to learn bowl turning. A friend suggested I get the Oneway 1640. It
seems to me that Lathe is way overpriced. Is the OneWay worth the money?
Any opinions on Powermatic lathes? Any suggestions on other lathes that I
might be happy with would sure be appreciated. My budget is $3000 or less
although $2000 would be ideal.


I noticed these lathes weight between 600 and 1000 pounds. Can they be
taken apart to get them into a basement shop?

Thanks

Bob M

Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Thanks for all the inputs. I will do some research on the Nova.

Bob M

OneWay clone/prototype was: Thinking about buying a lathe
 

Many retired people subscribing to this groups have worked all their live
in
industries and have great knowledge and practical experience about machine
design.
Having said that I wonder what would be the cost of materiel to build a
prototype resembling the Oneway lathe?


I've done some machine design work in the past and when I first saw the
price on th Oneway, I wondered just that, so here goes...

Not counting the motor/drive...because I don't know exactly what the oneway
has...and you know someone with a fabricating shop that won't rape you,
since this is gonna be a one-off thing...

Material is going to set you back about $350usd for the bed/ways/leg
assembly. Steel in question is 3/16" (for the bed tube) and 1/4" (for the
legs and braces) steel plate, nothing fancy, just hot or cold rolled steel
and a couple of bars of 5/8"x3 ground steel bar for the ways.

A fabricating shop is going to charge you about $100 to $200 or so(plus
coffee and donuts or maybe a case or two of beer) for the cutting, bending
and rolling. These are ballpark prices that a fab shop in southern Wisconsin
gave me about this exact project a year ago. The guy that runs the shop owes
me a favor or two, but not enough to cut his price too much. And I'd have
had ALL the engineering done already and would have been sweating right
along side him while doing the work.

The spindle is going to cost you about $100 to make on the cheap or $250 to
do it right and the tailstock is going to cost about $150.

So all told, I'd guess you're looking at about $1100 plus the cost of the
motor/drive.

For the drives, a step pulley set-up is gonna run you about $100 for a 6
speed and about $250 for a Reeves VS set-up and a 2 hp motor should go for
about $150-$175 which brings the grand total up to biting the hell out of
$1600.

These numbers are not just pulled out of my a$$, but they are NOT to be
taken as a firm quote, either...call them educated guesses that should be
pretty close.

Luck

Mike