Restoring an old lathe is a rewarding project, especially when working with a nearly 70-year-old machine that is still in ...

Lathe should be the first machine too you get. Way more versatile than a mill. Report comment. Reply. Brian H. says: February 21, 2018 at 6:53 pm ...

Old lathes, especially pre-WW2 designs, tend to have smaller spindle bores, even on some quite massive machines. I got a newer Asian 13″ lathe mainly because of its 1.5″ bore.

The ML7 was the first lathe made after WW2 at a price the man in the street could afford for his home workshop. This lathe was the definitive machine for home engineering.

According to Romi Machine Tools Ltd., its new C420 Combination Lathe is perfect for short-run small parts, secondary operation work, tool and die shops and shops getting into CNC for the first time. .