Which of the 14" has the best performance and trouble free history?
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14" midi lathes performance
- Thread starter Ed Jarvis
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I see a lot of great reviews for the Record Power Harold and the Rikon 70-1420 VSR. I own. Larger Record Power and it has been a great lathe.
I have an obscure wahuda which is the company that made the lathes for axminster tools certain years. It's been trouble free and another good thing about it is the spindle is 1.25-8 and everything else is the same as my big lathe also.
I replaced my Nova 14 DR (which ran flawlessly for all the years I had it and is still running today) with the Nova Neptune 15" direct drive. The Neptune is one sweet lathe.