Reply To: Buying lathe parts seperately

[david pierce]

Randy,
Check out the Sincere lathe and accessories. It is a good machine and is far more affordable than the European lathes and accessories. Boley, Wolf-Jahn and Lorch made great stuff but they went out of business years ago. The Sincere lathe is still made and comes with a cross slide and collet holding drilling tailstock. The gear cutting milling head is around $250.00 and the dividing plates around one or two hundred dollars. The chances are you can’t even find this stuff for the other lathes. For around $50.00 you can get a conversion kit to turn the lathe into a sensative drill press. I have Wolf-Jahn, Lorch, Bergeon, Boley lathes and others and all of them are good machines. The Sincere Lathe is also a good high quality machine and can turn pivots, make gears and do what needs to be done to make watch parts.
david