@Ischgl99 I've never heard of eisen, ill give them a call tomorrow. I would love to pick one up local but I live in Alaska and machines that are both not completely worn out or a 16" swing 8' bed engine lathe are hard to come by. I just saw a beat up 1940s heavy 10 sell for 4k a few weeks ago. its nuts up here. I wanted to avoid china but a large portion of even PMs product line is china so I'm not dead set against it.
@mksj Thanks for your input, I was just drooling over your VFD conversion thread. I have the 3 phase 1340 on order as the plan was to VFD it. I don't really need the extra swing but I'm planning on chambering barrels for big bore ELR guns and that 2" spindle bore makes that really easy. I talked to grizzly today and they have 2 shipments incoming, March 9 all sold, and a week later that has available machines on it. and my local distributor isn't charging me shipping to get it up here, which is almost 1000. I called PM to see if anything other machines were available sooner and I got a flat no so at this point grizzly is looking promising but you're right, that many change gears is 100% not ideal.
