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Originally Posted by InFlight
Quite a few other good American Lathes to consider used including South Bend (9 Inch, 10 Heavy), Atlas or Craftsman 9 inch, Clausing, Leblonde, Lodge & Shipley, and Sheldon. Need some experience when buying a used lathe to evaluate it's condition, and understand what parts are present, or if replacements are available. (total cost).
Other than HASS, there are no domestic lathes in production. The current South Bend ones are all imports.
If you have limited shop space; a Bench Top to unit would be the way to go. Otherwise their are a lot of "tool room" sized lathes in the used market.
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Hardinge and Monarch both still make HLV-H and 10EE lathes...but they are custom order and the last I heard a 10EE was over $100,000...so not exactly FRC friendly from a budget standpoint.
Standard Modern makes lathes in Canada, which afaik is the only North American lathe still in regular production. They are not cheap though. I got a quote last fall just to see and a 1340 was $16,000 and a 1640 was $27,000.