Lathe

Many thanks for all the suggestions, I wouldn't be starting off with thread cutting, that's for sure! I've been refurbishing a Kubota lawn mower deck and had to get some loader pins turned down to size and was thinking it would be handy if I could it myself. There are still bits to be done and given the price of Kubota parts a lathe could pay for itself in fairly short order. I also came across these -

https://www.warco.co.uk/2955-model-engineering-lathes

I'm guessing they are made out east somewhere but I wouldn't be doing heavy duty stuff.
dont buy that toy,try something like this instead
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/COLCHEST...=item1a738c5341:g:28MAAOSw0~pcUrb6:rk:40:pf:0
 
For the price of that little Warco you should be able to find some nice vintage cast iron, which will still be worth what you paid for it in 10yrs time.
There is a lovely DSG (Dean Smith and Grace) on ebay at the moment, the Rolls Royce of lathes and quite rare only two things wrong with it - some fool painted it (badly) bright red and he wants £2500 for it.
go on you know you want too
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DSG-Lath...m=233124166128&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
 

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