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<blockquote data-quote="Defens" data-source="post: 1004494" data-attributes="member: 84753"><p>Hi!</p><p>I went through the same tedious, but fun, process of elimination of trying to find a nice mill and lathe for my home shop that wouldn't be pure junk, but wouldn't break the bank either. I live in Washington, so have the benefit of visiting a Grizzly retaill showroom not far away, and my shooting buddy has a Grizzly 13x36 lathe.</p><p></p><p>I ented up going with the Jet GHB 1440. It lacks some of the accessories that the Grizzly "gunsmith's" lathes have - like coolant and a headstock spider, but those are easy to build yourself. What swayed me was that there's a store in Auburn, WA (Equipment Sales & Surplus) that has the exclusive sales rights to blemished/"scratch and dent" Jet machinery. I got my lathe for right about half-off, less than $3000 for a lathe that retails at close to $7000 - the backsplash was a bit twisted up in a couple of places and it was missing some paint, but a can of Krylon and a bit of sheet metal bending put it right. The mill was almost perfect - only thing wrong with it was an index mark on the head was riveted into the wrong place. Got half off on that, too. </p><p></p><p>I'd give these guys a call to see what that have in stock; they get new stuff in all the time, and you can put your name on a wait list for a particular model or tool if you'd like - and they ship all over the country. I ended up with $15K worth of machinery for about $7K total. Saved enough to put nice DROs on both units, with lots of money left over for tooling, bits, vises, etc.</p><p></p><p>The Jet lathes and Grizzly's are pretty close in specs, but from what I can see, the Jets just seem to be finished up a bit better. I'm very happy with both of my machines, which I bought last winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Defens, post: 1004494, member: 84753"] Hi! I went through the same tedious, but fun, process of elimination of trying to find a nice mill and lathe for my home shop that wouldn't be pure junk, but wouldn't break the bank either. I live in Washington, so have the benefit of visiting a Grizzly retaill showroom not far away, and my shooting buddy has a Grizzly 13x36 lathe. I ented up going with the Jet GHB 1440. It lacks some of the accessories that the Grizzly "gunsmith's" lathes have - like coolant and a headstock spider, but those are easy to build yourself. What swayed me was that there's a store in Auburn, WA (Equipment Sales & Surplus) that has the exclusive sales rights to blemished/"scratch and dent" Jet machinery. I got my lathe for right about half-off, less than $3000 for a lathe that retails at close to $7000 - the backsplash was a bit twisted up in a couple of places and it was missing some paint, but a can of Krylon and a bit of sheet metal bending put it right. The mill was almost perfect - only thing wrong with it was an index mark on the head was riveted into the wrong place. Got half off on that, too. I'd give these guys a call to see what that have in stock; they get new stuff in all the time, and you can put your name on a wait list for a particular model or tool if you'd like - and they ship all over the country. I ended up with $15K worth of machinery for about $7K total. Saved enough to put nice DROs on both units, with lots of money left over for tooling, bits, vises, etc. The Jet lathes and Grizzly's are pretty close in specs, but from what I can see, the Jets just seem to be finished up a bit better. I'm very happy with both of my machines, which I bought last winter. [/QUOTE]
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