New lathe "kit" fresh from Shanghai

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Now you're going to have to make an engraver so you can ID each gear position and feed/thread!!! Your loyal fans will of course expect that in polished brass with red and black infill for the numbers... ;)

Looking good man!
 
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popper

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Years ago I got a good lesson in Asian manufacturing. Everything is job shopped and if you want QC, have YOUR rep on site. Makes NO difference what the product is. Had vendors dumpster diving big shops for culls, assembling and selling. And many other unacceptable processes. Mexico was about as bad.