Subject: Re: SMITHY - to buy or not? Other choices???

From: Mac <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:48:17 GMT

[email-masked] (Ballard K) wrote:
>Smithy offers a planetary pulley 2:1 to reduce the rpm and also offers a
>LH threading adatation as well. The pulley costs $105.00 and the LH
>Threading is $30.00.

When did they start to offer the LH adapter, the last I 
heard they would just supply the drawing of the the thing 
so you could make it.

>
>The AT-300 is the CB-1220 in Smithy's current line. The 300 in the model
>number AT-300 referred to the swing of the lathe in mm. Because the metric
>system is still not widely recognized in the US Smithy changed the model
>number to CB-1220. CB = combination, 12 = swing and 20 = distance between
>centers (measured in inches).

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Mac
Homebrewer and tinker by choice, Computer geek by trade.