which lathe?

Buy a good used Herco.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Did you mean "Hercus", Gunner? (They are lathe manufacturers based in South Australia.)

-- Jeff

Indeed. Mea Culpa. The meds...

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Damn for a minute I thought you were talking about my nemisis - a Hurco.

Jim

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Doncha like Hucos? They are a nice, well made heavy..heavy..chunk of iron. Controls tend to suck...ymmv

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

I have a more-than-passing aquaintence with a hurco VMC30 which is at my former night job. They were using it to machine wear pads that had been rough-cut on a table saw, so it was mimimal profile, and drill.

Some nights I would load hundreds of those things through the machine in four hours. Possibly the single most boring thing I have ever done in my entire life. Ah well, I still have the pay socked away.

The controls weren't half bad, conversational or G code.

For the simple jobs they ran, conversational worked just fine.

I did wind up poking around inside the control console on occasion because the displays would goof up.

Jim

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