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My new (to me) machine arrived wrapped in polythene and bolted to a pallet. I found a genuine factory single phase M250 on a secondhand machine dealers site, here in the UK. You can read more about the machine here:. There was also a factory single phase version.
HARRISON M250 LATHE FULL
They were in full production throughout the 1980s and 1990s and were much favoured by schools and colleges. It has many constructional features more usually associated with precision toolroom machines. Whereas the M250 is a scaled down industrial quality machine, designed for small one off production work. So called model engineering lathes often sacrifice some functionality in return for compactness and affordability. The county of my birth and the cradle of British Engineering. It is situated in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire. The Harrison company has a pedigree going back to the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution. I found it to be somewhat over priced for what is essentially an outmoded design. Reckoned by many to be the ultimate amateurs lathe. My initial port of call was the Myford range. I spent a good deal of time deliberating before I made a purchase. I decided it was a better option to buy a second hand, high quality British lathe than to spend more on modifications to make my Chinese lathe into the machine I needed it to be.
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You get what you pay for, and I soon realised the machines' shortcomings. It was of a type that boasted a mill/drill head incorporated into the headstock. The lathe I had bought was a fairly inexpensive Chinese import.
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In 2006 I fulfilled an ambition I'd held since I was twelve.I became the proud owner of a lathe.