Thread: CNC lathes

Look around for a good quality lathe (Colchester, Harrison, Graziano, Meuser, etc), second-hand but not more than 40 years old, 50mm spindle bore, 1 metre between centres with both metric and imperial threads. Probably in the $6-10K range. They will do everything you want with accuracy and no need to learn the CNC gobbledegook which is a bit of a mystery to us older dinosaurs!. For one-off work the normal lathe is much faster to set-up and use.