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KS/ NENE | A buddy of mine bought a Grizzly 14x40 lathe a few months back for his small fab shop. The lathe itself works well for what he does with it, but he bought the DRO after the fact and it was a nightmare to install, he had to machine parts of the bed to accept the read rods, I think he told me it took 8+ hours to install. The other problem he had was the motor already went out. Grizzly sent him, in a timely manner, a new capacitor and relay for it which fixed it, but the service guy told him it was a common problem and that there's some sort of adjustment you need to regularly do inside the motor contacts to keep it from happening.... he will be replacing the motor with a reputable supplier when he gets a chance.
He was in the same boat as you, would like a nice, quality older machine, but availability and price drove him to Grizzly. Someday he will step up and spend the money for a quality CNC and be done with it. | |
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Metal lathe
