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<blockquote data-quote="Monkeypants" data-source="post: 152797" data-attributes="member: 2708"><p>I've read that this Taiwan built Tida is a copy of some model of SouthBend. It is a 12" swing, light duty machine. One nice thing about it is the inclusion of both metric and imperial gears for threading.</p><p>These lathes were thought to be cheap junk when they arrived in North America in the 80s. Nowadays they are thought of as well built machines, for hobby or light commercial level use. They have stood up very well over time.</p><p>This one went into a custom Bakery equipment business. None of the tradesmen there would use it as it cut on a taper.</p><p>The owner gave it to me a few years ago. After some adjusting instructions from Dan Smith it no longer cuts on a taper ( unless you want to!)</p><p>It was never set up properly when new, so it saw very little use and the bed is as new.</p><p>That crew had a larger Chek built lathe to use instead.</p><p>All of the info on set up is also in the manual, I guess no one read it!</p><p>I added a DRO and a cheapie Chinese quick change tool post, now it is quite a decent little lathe.[ATTACH=full]47751[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Monkeypants, post: 152797, member: 2708"] I've read that this Taiwan built Tida is a copy of some model of SouthBend. It is a 12" swing, light duty machine. One nice thing about it is the inclusion of both metric and imperial gears for threading. These lathes were thought to be cheap junk when they arrived in North America in the 80s. Nowadays they are thought of as well built machines, for hobby or light commercial level use. They have stood up very well over time. This one went into a custom Bakery equipment business. None of the tradesmen there would use it as it cut on a taper. The owner gave it to me a few years ago. After some adjusting instructions from Dan Smith it no longer cuts on a taper ( unless you want to!) It was never set up properly when new, so it saw very little use and the bed is as new. That crew had a larger Chek built lathe to use instead. All of the info on set up is also in the manual, I guess no one read it! I added a DRO and a cheapie Chinese quick change tool post, now it is quite a decent little lathe.[ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot_20220224-101047.png"]47751[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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