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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:44 pm 
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i need one...dont wanna spend more than $300...bunnings has a bunch of GMC and ryobi ones...not a huge fan they look/feel cheap n nasty...any recommendations on where i can get a good one? or perhaps what brand might be good?

PS. sorry if this is in the wrong section...but i dunno where else it should go

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see hear from a link posted earlier last year by the good Dr

http://www.hareandforbes.com.au/sample_2/home.php

select metal working

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select page 3

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DON'T buy the supercheap or other <$100 versions they are worse than not having one. I've got a $60 version and it is the worst built tool I've ever had!!!!!

Best bet is the saturday Courier Mail. Find the auctions section where there are always ads for whole workshops worth of machinery from businesses going bust. Turn up to a Tuesday or wednesday auction and get one that was $2,000 new for about $300. While you are there look for single phase mig welders. There are sometimes $1,200 welders going really cheap.

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What are you doing Ina, stop procrasting and start cutting I say! :D

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And while your there Ina can you pick me up a geared head metal lathe and a floating head turret mill please. :wink:

And yes - more cutting!!!

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try big country , behind the news paper mill at marrarie

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Archangel007 wrote:
And while your there Ina can you pick me up a geared head metal lathe and a floating head turret mill please. :wink:


x2 please 8)


I would look for a 2nd hand one. I picked up an old clunker out of the trading post. It isn't in great nick, but it works. With some TLC it will last forever.

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get a good drill press and then buy a 200 cross slide.....
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striped 63 wrote:
What are you doing Ina, stop procrasting and start cutting I say! :D


preparation :) once i'm done the jig shouldnt take more than a day or so :)
and then its no-holes-barred for the subframe! moved my plans forward slightly: am gonna try to be done with the basic subframe by end of april...depends on how much these ohlins shockers cost :D

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