My only problem with the HF is it's size. When I can get the Homier for
basically the same price ($20 more including shipping & tax) the HF doesn't
seem like much of a value, even at 30% off. While I haven't actually run
into any real problems with the size of the 7x, I do see some potential
issues... I bought the 5" 4 jaw chuck from LMS & even with nothing in the
chuck & the jaws virtually centered, the lathe shakes pretty bad at low
speeds. I can't imagine actually trying to bore something off center on it,
and I don't think it would be much better on a 7x12.
I had also decided on the 8x, and am in pretty much the same boat as you. I
would still jump on it, except that my local HF won't honor the coupon on
the 8x & they will on the 9x. The 9x20 seems to get mixed reviews, but the
biggest complaints seem to revolve around the cross-slide screw & lack of a
tumbler reverse. These are both fixable, and the latter appears to be true
of the Grizzly 10x22 as well, unfortuantely (please correct me if I'm
wrong... The only mention of reversing the carriage in the manual involved
reversing the spindle rotation as well).
Mike
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On 3/19/07, Ed <edo@...> wrote:
What I didn't say in my previous post was that I had decided the HF
8x12 was probably the best buy, but I just couldn't bring myself to
pay the current price after it had been on sale for $429 for the past
couple of years. If you weren't happy with HF's 7x10, you probably
won't like their 9x20 either - it had some of the worst reviews that I
saw.
Had I not decided to go small (and cheap) at first (with the Homier),
I would have bought the Grizzly 10x22.
Ed
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