For £50, just buy it, pay with PayPal or credit card so you can get your money back if it never comes, and if it does it will give you £50 worth of amusement at how crap it is;)
When @Chippie said it looked like his Chester 920 I started looking for 9*20 lathes specifically. That led me to some Chinese brand on lathes.co.uk, reading down the page it said it was developed from the emco.
And we have the answer...it's an emco compact 8:
The leadscrew brackets are different but everything else appears identical. The comments above definitely helped, thanks all:thumbup:
I've been looking through old warco models but it just doesn't seem quite like them. The very square plain headstock is quite unique, most have angled bits or loads more levers etc.
The APTC 480 lathe:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275503582819?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rHHjGzsFSgO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=FwxpB85XTmW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP
I can't find any info about it online but there's a couple of references to the 460, presumably the next...
I suspect know that it's all down to the innate dishonesty in the Chinese culture. I worked with Chinese customers for 18 months until I got sick of it.
I've told the story on here before, but I tried getting some of these knock-off batteries direct from the manufacturer, the first question...
It's fairly normal to have dynamic pricing in the tyre industry I think. But you've got to remember that it works in your favour as well as against...if it's a quiet day prices do come down. All about maintaining a healthy equilibrium in the market so I'm not against it at all.
Completely...
No but I wondered if that would help...
I'm just surprised that it started smoking so fast, and I didn't expect heat sinks to be that effective. If you think that's all it needs then that's ideal, I'll just get one of them...
Evening
I've bought a 100w led chip for a project (it's not much of a project to be honest, but I might stick a picture or two in the 3d printing section when it's done). Today I test wired it up to the battery that's powering it (36v hoverboard battery) and after maybe 5 seconds it starts to...
Does the round bit (next to the fork thing on the right of the first pic) sit in the micrometer tool? I reckon it's a tool holder and the mic is for setting the depth of cut