Agree with Pete and Gav but if you are going to buy a drill chuck spend a tad more and go quick release. Really annoys me having to pick the key up. Picked up a new Jacobs 1 to 16 for a £5 though with MT5 taper. Have three others, two Metabo 3/8" have had a right battering while the Rohm is still tight 12 months on. ****** i have doubts on them but ok to learn with.
I would avoid nearly all tooling from ******, be very selective. RGD is mostly ****** on lathe tools but offer a great next day service on respectable items.
Decent quality English HSS with cobalt added, may be dear but one of these blanks would be 5 ****** brazed tip carbides that flex and break. Whats more that Clark wouldnt take kindly to using anythng other than HSS.
The only replaceable tipped tools that would cut good would be the Top Notch Kennametal. Boring bar and turning tool plus a couple of spare cutters, probably more than you paid for lathe.
On the look out for Kennametal or Seco threading tools at moment, wasted £30 on some Chronos junk, J&L internal 16mm £55, plus ******, the only one any good was HSS ground to shape.
I disagree that the "old lathes are not designed to work with carbide and use HSS."
It should be they are not designed to work with the cheap, blunt-nosed, brazed carbide tipped cutters. I bought a small set for my Dunlap. They were a royal pain, chattered and could not take off less than about 0.003". Seems most have a large tip radius to create a smoother cut and very small clearance angles, but that requires more force than cheap/old lathes can handle.
HSS bits work well as they are ground to a small radius point and often are ground with rake and clearance angles. The HSS bits I have with just a simple V-tip chatter almost as bad as the cheap carbide cutters. The only HSS bit I had that worked well on the old, sloppy, Dunlap lathe had all the rake and clearance angles ground in.
I found the same on my Sherline lathe. As it as a brass bed, it flexes easily and required a proper HSS bit with all the angles ground in or the sharp radius indexed carbide bits. Fought chatter on cutting steel on it until I got the indexed bits.
The Indexable carbide cutters I have work far better and are easier on the lathe. Yes, I may not be able to cut at their full capacity, but they work far better with a very small tip radius and proper rake and clearance angles. I thing you need to have the right inserts to match the angles the HSS were normally using.