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Thanks guys.

Yes on PM, and I would love to VFD one and Taiwan too. My available travel radius is pretty limited for looking for used machines. Surely the deals for great used machines with tooling come up, but, I'll not be holding my breath. BXA is what I am going for. Initially going to tool up for the muzzle end. The rest (pun) will have to come in time...


The biggest Grizzly GS lathe G824 requires gear change between common threads 16, 24, and 28. Seems that would piss me off when I could have bought a PM and been GTG. The PM1440 GS, specifically marketed as a gunsmithing lathe is pretty feature rich for the price (China). Looking for more owners/users to discuss with. The higher precision 1440GT (Taiwan) has me drooling but I'd be in it another bench lathe on top of the 1440GS by the time I go it even chucked/DRO'd/VFD'd/SOB!