Got some auction finds.

[RaisedByWolves]

and it's 450v. So a step up transformer $$$

He’s over on that big island that copied the rebel flag and uses the metric voltage, so I’m not sure if that would be as big a deal as it would be in 110v land.

SC can you get residential 3 phase where you’re at?

I know nothing of your electrical system or is a step up trans would be more or less for you.

I know we paid 4K ish for the one we didn’t need for our new grinder at work.

That was a fiasco.

 

[SouthernChap]

and it's 450v. So a step up transformer $$$

Oh, it's not 230/410, usable with a VFD then? We have 240V single phase in residential as standard here in the UK.

I am a little hazy about 3 phase motor types/voltages and which would usable with VFDs.

 

[SouthernChap]

He’s over on that big island that copied the rebel flag and uses the metric voltage, so I’m not sure if that would be as big a deal as it would be in 110v land.

SC can you get residential 3 phase where you’re at?

I know nothing of your electrical system or is a step up trans would be more or less for you.

I know we paid 4K ish for the one we didn’t need for our new grinder at work.

That was a fiasco.

We can, but there can be a long wait if the nearest substation with 3-phase available doesn't have any capacity left. Oh and it's bloody expensive.

Would this not work with a VFD?

(Only idle interest about the general topic really; like I said, I think for my needs a Hardinge would be poor value, given it's only 4" between centres bigger than my 7x)

 

[brino]

I think for my needs a Hardinge would be poor value

Since when is this about "needs"?

 

[SouthernChap]

Since when is this about "needs"?

Well you make a good point and one I'd heartily endorse...

...except for when a workshop can grow to at most 4 metres by 4 metres and there's really only space for one lathe.

Sadly that is the situation I have. Or rather, until we get some extension work done and have some outside garden equipment storage built, my current situation will continue to be 4 metres by 3 metres.

Charters have a couple of tidy Jones and Shipman 540s at really quite sensible prices and I've seen them on eBay in certainly bearable condition for less but I wouldn't buy one (even though I really, really would like a surface grinder...and a tool and cutter grinder, and a jig borer and...) as I just don't have the space.

UK experience: small houses, small gardens, small garages (especially for housing stock built in the 90s and after).

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Well you make a good point and one I'd heartily endorse...

...except for when a workshop can grow to at most 4 metres by 4 metres and there's really only space for one lathe.

Sadly that is the situation I have. Or rather, until we get some extension work done and have some outside garden equipment storage built, my current situation will continue to be 4 metres by 3 metres.

Charters have a couple of tidy Jones and Shipman 540s at really quite sensible prices and I've seen them on eBay in certainly bearable condition for less but I wouldn't buy one (even though I really, really would like a surface grinder...and a tool and cutter grinder, and a jig borer and...) as I just don't have the space.

UK experience: small houses, small gardens, small garages (especially for housing stock built in the 90s and after).

Why not put in a mezzanine?

Sure you would have to scoot around on wheeled shop stools, but you would double your floor space.

 

[coolidge]

...except for when a workshop can grow to at most 4 metres by 4 metres and there's really only space for one lathe.

Meh, plenty of space in the living room.

 

[SouthernChap]

Why not put in a mezzanine?

Sure you would have to scoot around on wheeled shop stools, but you would double your floor space.

That literally made me belly laugh!