Reply To: Cross slide improvement for a 9 X 20 lathe

[John RuddParticipant @johnrudd16576]

Hi Andrew, your reasons for buying a used 9 x 20 are your own affair….its good to hear why in this case, helping someone out….kudos to you…..As I said in my earlier post, horses for courses….in fact given the drawbacks of the 9 x 20, I went on to buy a bigger and 'better' machine, very similar in spec to the Warco 290…..between the Chester and the 290 clone, different as chalk n cheese…

.its all down to cost…the Chester was around £700 when I bought mine some 10 yrs back, the clone 290 was just over £1700 delivered with a stand and the usual extras…added to that a 3 ph conversion brough the price to under £2000….

Hope your deal goes through and you enjoy modding the machine as I have mine..,