Well, its taken about a month to move in but now my business is in an industrial shed with a bit more room and a few more toys.
Small walk behind forklift in the background. The hoist is for some R&D work for vehicle products and is wired to 3 phase power. All of the e-commerce stuff in pallet racking to the right.
And a compressor perched up above the toilets
But I really digress. The Hare and Forbes Annual sale pricing is now available and I went down there to buy an AL336 Deluxe to replace the lathe I sold yesterday
https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/L682D
But while I was there, I noticed a couple of used lathes the said they had traded from a school a day or so earlier and while they had a few queries about them, nobody wanted a 3 phase lathe.
So these are 4 years old and just traded in. They have hardly been used and they still had the steadies wrapped in plastic in the cupboards. They have faceplates, coolant, 3 & 4 jaw chucks, drill chuck and even a couple of tools. These have a 40mm spindle, DI-4 chuck and are made in Taiwan rather than China. New, they are another $1k dearer than the AL336 I was going to buy.
https://www.machineryhouse.com.au/L237D
So cutting a long story short, I screwed them down to $3900 and put a deposit down. So I got rid of a well used lathe I bought new for about $2k and upgraded it to a lightly used but rather dirty lathe about the same age as mine worth $6.5k new (with the coolant) for an outlay of just $1100. I'm pretty happy with that.
So I'm just waiting on their service department to give it the once over before they deliver it to me. I guess if I ever take it home, I'll just have to add a VFD. Anyway, I'll report back when I get it delivered and wired in.