![]() The 9A is about the same machine, all my tooling and chucks cross over. I bought it 1 hour of listing, thinking it was the likely replacement for my Boxford. So yesterday a more worn but usable south bend 9A cabinet model showed up with a three phase motor. After loosing out on a Heavy 10 last year by waiting to buy because it was not in great shape I decided to just buy next time and sort the details later. ![]() Most of the time I lose out if it's any good as they go fast. Not a lot of industries that use lathes and then retire them, so decent lathes don't show up local often like in other parts of the USA. Here in Oregon USA the main industry was lumber for many years, I think now that's transitioned to pot. I contacted Lathes UK about parts ten years ago and their advice was to start over with another lathe rather than to try the conversion. I have tried to locate MKIII parts in the UK to do a conversion but it seems I almost have to buy a lathe from the UK and ship it as a lot of other people are looking for the same parts. ![]() It's set at a fairly slow feed speed and I just make do or hand feed it if I am in a hurry. Its a hassle to do the change gears and I never have touched the bag of gears to change feeds. I have wished for the power cross slide and a way to change feed speeds without breaking out the wrenches, almost every time I use it. Not sure how it ended up in the USA, but it's done good by me. I have had a full metric CUD Boxford lathe for about ten years now. ![]()
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