Jet or Delta Mini-lathes?
 

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

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Harry

JET!


"harryc" wrote in message
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I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

--
Harry

Go for the Jet Mini. I think the quality is better. At least it was when
they were made in Taiwan.

Barry


"harryc" wrote in message
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I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very
much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

--
Harry

Can't speak about the Delta as I've no experience with one but I've the
Jet mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I
am with the Jet. Its outstanding!
Grandpa John

harryc wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

Delta

harryc wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

Can't speak about the Jet as I've no experience with one but I've got the
Delta mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I am
with the Delta. Its outstanding! Sorry for the paraphrase. Actually I have
used a Jet at club demos, it's ok, but not as easy to use as the Delta, I'm
used to having the power switch up high where I can hit it fast.

I liked the Delta-mini so much I bought the Delta 1440 for my larger work horse.

mike



John DeBoo wrote:
Can't speak about the Delta as I've no experience with one but I've the
Jet mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I
am with the Jet. Its outstanding!
Grandpa John

harryc wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or
Delta what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it
very much. Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night
time. I think a small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night
time in te basement

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:32:48 -0700, John DeBoo
wrote:

Can't speak about the Delta as I've no experience with one but I've the
Jet mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I
am with the Jet. Its outstanding!
Grandpa John

harryc wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement



Yeah... what John said...
I like my Jet a lot..


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:39:10 GMT, Mike wrote:

Mike... now that you mention it, that's the thing that I found strange
on my Jet mini, but I thought that it was because I'm used to the
shopsmith, which has the switch on the headstock.. (and I'm left
handed)
I have it plugged into a power strip and use that for the switch...
seems funny that they run the wiring from the head stock to the tail
stock, just to put the switch there..
I noticed that the bigger Jet lathes have them on the head stock..

Can't speak about the Jet as I've no experience with one but I've got the
Delta mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I am
with the Delta. Its outstanding! Sorry for the paraphrase. Actually I have
used a Jet at club demos, it's ok, but not as easy to use as the Delta, I'm
used to having the power switch up high where I can hit it fast.

I liked the Delta-mini so much I bought the Delta 1440 for my larger work horse.

mike



John DeBoo wrote:
Can't speak about the Delta as I've no experience with one but I've the
Jet mini and doubt I could be any more pleased with another brand than I
am with the Jet. Its outstanding!
Grandpa John

harryc wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or
Delta what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it
very much. Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night
time. I think a small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night
time in te basement






mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

In article ,
"harryc" wrote:

I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

Delta, but opinions are, well, everyone has one. I doubt you would go
wrong with either

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I have had exp with the Delta Midi Lathe. Overall it is a well built
machine. With the following exceptions: tailstock and toolrest plastic
locking handles tend to break. I would not recomend using it for large
turnings as I have recently retired my Delta due to bearing failure. (I
turned quite a few larger items on it)
Steven Raphael
Ithaca MI
http://www.geocities.com/steven_raph...turnings1.html
"harryc" wrote in message
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I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

--
Harry

Thank you for all your imput
"harryc" wrote in message
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I am interested in purchasing a mini-lathe for my basement Jet or Delta
what's your opinion. I have a Jet 1642 in the garage and like it very much.
Larger lathe is in garage and diffcult to work at night time. I think a
small min-lathe will offer the time to turn at night time in te basement

--
Harry

In article ,
"Steven Raphael" wrote:

I would not recomend using it for large
turnings as I have recently retired my Delta due to bearing failure. (I
turned quite a few larger items on it)

I've turned quite a few full-capacity chunks on my Delta midi for
upwards of 4 years now. I certainly push the little machine on a regular
basis but it keeps on going. This past summer I decided to replace the
bearings after turning some acrylic, polycarb and the like for my vacuum
chucking needs. The plastic had a tendency to wrap around the spindle
and get pulled past the seal and into the forward bearing. After the
plastic job was finished, I decided to just replace both bearings given
the hard use I've given the lathe. I don't recall where I got the
replacements, maybe MSC, but I chose the premium, electric motor grade,
Japanese bearings and I don't think the pair cost more than $20 or so.
With just a slight bit of shade-tree mechanic, the swap is quick and
painless.

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