Hello Huib, thank you for the reply however I did not buy the machine. The table had some deep milling damage and gouges. Also I felt the price was too high. Those machines are very rare here and in retrospect I could have repaired the damage. Oh, well. I still have my Unimat DB200. How do you like your Super 11?
I see you live in South Holland- are there many Emco-Maier machines there? Perhaps I should make a vacation
Gorinchem looks like a very nice city.
Best regards,
Mark S.
Hello Mark,
thanks for your reply, its nice when you got reply from the other site of the World.
That's a pitty the table was incorrect used so the damage was to much to clean him up. When the price is good you can spent some to make this kind off damage repairing. Wait a little longer and you will see on some day you find the good one to buy. I have waiting for 3 years to get one which was good enough for me, also the Super 11, I am looking for more then 5 years to catch one in my budget.
Even I dreamed sinds I make steamengine's for Emco machines, for 30 years I bought a EBK 450 lathe and he is still one off my favourites becaus I can read and write with him( this is a saying in Dutch) But the Super 11 is an other class beside's the greater dimensions is it a Lathe with more power and opportunities.
I bought him for 2 yearts and at the moment I am bilding a DRO on him, in the meantime I have bought a supportgrinder, of cause a quick-change toolholder, a collet chuck, backplate a four chuck and some other things. Some of them on E-bay others on a Dutch advertisement Marketplace or elsewhere. So in the meantime I spent another lathe on assessories. The D.R.O. was my last investment on him. I bought these for about $ 500 with 2 glass ruler for 2 shafts.
I think you have looked where I come from, it is indeed the Netherlands in the Province Zuid Holland in a small town named Gorinchem.
Because the production off Maier machines was also in Europe there are a lot off them sold in Europe. In Germany and Austria I think there are the most off them as well the Super 11 as the FB2. But olso in the Netherlands there are a lot off them and because the quality off the machines they are bought for a lifetime using in the modellingworld of cause, when they have bin used on production milieu they are no more usable for us , to make them in a good condition again it cost to much.
So when you have the opportunity to come to Europe on a vacation you can mayby found one, but i think the shippingcost are too high for such waight,
I'll hope you liked what i have write to and i hope you understand my Englisch. i am beware there are some arrors in my wrihting, i hope you forgive me for that.
Regards from the Netherlands
Huib Hoogendoorn
