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I am willing to bet good money that that vice fractured solely because of the local point loading of the way it was clamped down. I cannot imagine any reason whatsoever why I would ever want to clamp a vice in that fashion!

Ah, it was the Aldi laser level thread?

Still pretty tame in the handbags at dawn stakes I see on other forums, and Facebook!

Compared to most of the forums I use, this is pretty civilised.

And lets not even mention Facebook......

The only acronym I can recall being used recently is IIRC, and a misspelling of that corrected by someone else.

There's always the option to simply move on to the next topic

Ron

Spot on.

Re gripping belts, my way of doing it, and you don't have to tighten the belt, is as follows.

Wear a stout glove, and grip together hard BOTH parts of the belt, front and rear. It then locks the spindle against itself.

You can then use your chosen method of turning the chuck.

Rarely fails.

Or, as the old saying goes, when all else fails, RTFM!

You will find one on various search parameters such as tube saw guide, or hacksaw guide:

**LINK**

Paul

Sizing info here:

**LINK**

I like to keep things simple.

I use one of these straight shank dead centres in whichever chuck I am using:

**LINK**

The lathe model would probably help

Ah, don't worry, that's two of us misunderstood!

If they do not possess a milling machine, perhaps to bore holes?

Seems a reasonable reason to me!

Today's Student and M300 are badge engineered clones of each other.

As John says, a new M300/Student (long bed) is around £20k all in.

Mine is all the lathe I will ever need

Yep

Bugger that, that's what electric motors were invented for!

It is worth resurrecting this thread every once in a while, if only to note the late, great, JS's comments

Been there with the machine moving dilemma on a number of occasions.

Pricing includes getting to you, and getting back to base, plus the extra mileage if they are not close to you.

If you are employing someone with a HIAB, you have the choice of a 3.5 ton vehicle, or 7.5 ton upwards.

Firstly, if you have 3 x 500 kg machines, that would probably put you over the weight carrying capacity of a 3.5 ton vehicle - 3.5 ton is the gross all up weight, on average they will probably carry a payload of around 1,000 kg/1 ton max.

With a 7.5 ton upwards vehicle, all of the costs are more because of the larger vehicle.

Truth is, if you employ someone to do it for you, nobody is cheap - it is a day out for them, a probably 350 mile round trip Manchester/London/Manchester, fuel costs, wear and tear on the vehicle, having to make a profit etc.

A commercial mover will also have the costs of employee salary, employee overheads, premises etc.

**LINK**

Waaaaaaay too much information Neil