[modeleng] Re: white colt myford replica lathe
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:13:42 +1000
I don't think they were made for very long Harry, a year or two, at best,
before they were discontinued. Hare & Forbes here in Oz used to stock 'em.
Late 70's as I recall.
> At 02:44 PM 5/9/06 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi all i have been offered a white colt myford replica lathe anybody
heard
> or got any information it will be appreciated - kenny
>
> How very odd you should mention this today . . . just last night while
> reading through MEs ca.1981, I came across an advert for Whitecolt lathes
> from Whitecote Machines, Cleckheaton, Yorks. In mid-May 1981, the basic
> machine was offered at =A3875. I can recall considering one of these
> machines back then, but decided aginst it when quality reports which were
> generally less than complimentary began filtering in. One supposes that
> such a machine will have by now had all its bugs and shortcomings, which
> seemed to plague Asian machines, had been remedied. I'm surprised at how
> many older . . . umm . . . mature MEs I have mentioned these lathes to
over
> the years who never heard of them.
>
>
> Regards,
> Harry Wade
> Nashville Tennessee
>
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