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I have bought many fantastic quality things on Ebay including taps and dies and pressure regulators. But almost all of my tooling is bought used off of Ebay. I have been happier usually with quality used vs cheap new. Every so often, an Ebay purchase turns out to not be good.

That is a very nice looking SB

My heavy 10 is quite old but lightly used and easily holds tolerances of less than 0.001 over a couple of feet. The biggest negative of the lathe is that it is in such good shape that it is unlikely I would find a larger used lathe in better shape.

I have one of the Chinese Multifix and really like it. So I will sell my Aloris brand QCTP but I will keep a knockoff Chinese one just in case.

If you do not mind spending the money, I would buy a used 3 phase 1 HP motor and slap one of these on it: http://www.electricmotorwholesale.com/9536-KBDA-24D/ They are very nice because they have analog (dials) controls that allow fast manual changing of the speed. I have one on my mill and...