Hi everyone, thanks for letting me join. I’ve been employed as a manual turner for nigh on 34 years, though my chucks are 6’6” in diameter and workpieces can be up to 20,000kg and mostly inconels.
I’ve been lurking your forums on and off for a year or so now and love what I see as well as it being very informative. The mrs has given me the green light to get a small lathe, so I’m hatching up plans to firstly build a little workshop and then pop a lathe in it. Struggling to decide which brand to go for at the moment but it’s looking like I’m gonna be making a choice between Denford, Boxford or bite the bullet and look out for a small Herbert. Logistics of getting one moved in are frightening me a little but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. 😂