this specific gear head has a foot break on it which is pretty large plus.
it's a 14x40 w/ a 1 9/16ths spindle bore
Grizzly G0709 I asked one of the better smiths here which one he'd pick and he recommended this one due to the foot break, it is the one I was leaning to - but I've never heard anyone complain about gears before..
So I asked, didn't want to bother the smith with follow on questions - but I did think it was weird that someone wouldn't want gears if they do things like cut threads. I know a good deal of people use the G4003G belt driven lathe and are pretty happy with it so ...
