I will always owe you for giving me the nudge to buy the Webb when I was wavering! 👍 To quote you, “why not?” I had no good answer… so I bought it! 10-hr drive each way to go get it. That wasn’t fun.
A really clean Webb turned up 5-6 years ago a bit south of here… I think the guy wanted $8k for it. I had the money, but I was like, why have TWO? Regretted that ever since. They are around $30k now new.
The only bummer about most HLV-H is they don’t do metric threads…. one reason I jumped on this Feeler was that it’s English/Metric. I have two customers who need metric threads on small work- it’s amazing for that. The Webb does metric (with a gear swap) but since it’s an English leadscrew, you have to leave the half-nut clamped and gear chain engaged the whole time. So to back up to take the next threading pass, you have to reverse the whole machine. Not SO bad with a VFD, but kind of a pain. Effortless on the Feeler/HLVH E/M.
