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Hey folks I am in need of your collective wisdom yet again. My old POS lathe – a Draper WTL 30 – has finally given up the ghost. I was able to use my Fathers Axminster for a while but the unspeakable so and so has need of its return! So I need a new lathe, my absolute hard limit is £300ish.
I have done a lot of reading about all the offerings below my price range from the usual suspects (Scheppach, SIP, Clarke, Charnwood & Draper) hell I could go to machinemart and pick up a Clarke for £180 and put the rest of my budget towards other tools! But I can’t seem to get away from all the bad reviews for these machines; apparently they are all just rebadged Chinese clones.
There is one offering from Record Power, the DML305, that I can only find glowing reviews of. It is at the top of my budget but I can get one locally from Norfolk Saw Service, I could actually go see it in the flesh first, if I so wished.
So after all that waffle I am looking for your kind help, chaps & chappettes, to talk me out of the Record Power DML305.

Cheers

<blockquote data-quote="Darth Davros" data-source="post: 307395" data-attributes="member: 1705">Hey folks I am in need of your collective wisdom yet again. My old POS lathe – a Draper WTL 30 – has finally given up the ghost. I was able to use my Fathers Axminster for a while but the unspeakable so and so has need of its return! So I need a new lathe, my absolute hard limit is £300ish.I have done a lot of reading about all the offerings below my price range from the usual suspects (Scheppach, SIP, Clarke, Charnwood &amp; Draper) hell I could go to machinemart and pick up a Clarke for £180 and put the rest of my budget towards other tools! But I can’t seem to get away from all the bad reviews for these machines; apparently they are all just rebadged Chinese clones. There is one offering from Record Power, the DML305, that I can only find glowing reviews of. It is at the top of my budget but I can get one locally from Norfolk Saw Service, I could actually go see it in the flesh first, if I so wished.So after all that waffle I am looking for your kind help, chaps &amp; chappettes, to talk me out of the Record Power DML305.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darth Davros, post: 307395, member: 1705"] Hey folks I am in need of your collective wisdom yet again. My old POS lathe – a Draper WTL 30 – has finally given up the ghost. I was able to use my Fathers Axminster for a while but the unspeakable so and so has need of its return! So I need a new lathe, my absolute hard limit is £300ish. I have done a lot of reading about all the offerings below my price range from the usual suspects (Scheppach, SIP, Clarke, Charnwood & Draper) hell I could go to machinemart and pick up a Clarke for £180 and put the rest of my budget towards other tools! But I can’t seem to get away from all the bad reviews for these machines; apparently they are all just rebadged Chinese clones. There is one offering from Record Power, the DML305, that I can only find glowing reviews of. It is at the top of my budget but I can get one locally from Norfolk Saw Service, I could actually go see it in the flesh first, if I so wished. So after all that waffle I am looking for your kind help, chaps & chappettes, to talk me out of the Record Power DML305. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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