I bought a Staral lathe in the beginning of the year, unfortunately it came without accessories. Been on the hunt for a 4 jaw, steadyrest,... since i bought it and finally last week found what i needed, the only drawback being it came with another Staral lathe .
My original staral lathe has a 4hp motor and a max rpm of 1500, the 'new' lathe has a 6 hp motor and max rpm of 2000. My question is, is the 500 extra rpm worth changing out the lathes? It's quite the undertaking for me to remove the old lathe and install the new, plus i would have to swap over the chip guard and the DRO also and since i'm quite inexperienced with lathes i don't know if it's worth swapping the lathes or if i should just keep the accessories and sell on the 'new' 2000 rpm lathe.
Another thing is that on my current lathe the max tpm is 1500, next speed down is 960. On the 'new' lathe the top speed is 2000 rpm but the next speed down is 1280 rpm, which seems like quite a large gap. On my current lathe i did most work at 1500 rpm using carbide tooling. See picture below for the speed settings of the two lathes.
Last thing, the motor is a Dahlander 2 speed electrical motor and apparently it's not possible to install a speed regulator on this type of motor.
Current lathe:
New lathe, identical to the current one, except for the faster speed.
My original staral lathe has a 4hp motor and a max rpm of 1500, the 'new' lathe has a 6 hp motor and max rpm of 2000. My question is, is the 500 extra rpm worth changing out the lathes? It's quite the undertaking for me to remove the old lathe and install the new, plus i would have to swap over the chip guard and the DRO also and since i'm quite inexperienced with lathes i don't know if it's worth swapping the lathes or if i should just keep the accessories and sell on the 'new' 2000 rpm lathe.
Another thing is that on my current lathe the max tpm is 1500, next speed down is 960. On the 'new' lathe the top speed is 2000 rpm but the next speed down is 1280 rpm, which seems like quite a large gap. On my current lathe i did most work at 1500 rpm using carbide tooling. See picture below for the speed settings of the two lathes.
Last thing, the motor is a Dahlander 2 speed electrical motor and apparently it's not possible to install a speed regulator on this type of motor.
Current lathe:
New lathe, identical to the current one, except for the faster speed.