I dunno if I'm just extremely lucky or if it was just meant to be lol but, I've been talking to a fellow on a local swap/sell website and we have worked out what I think is a good deal.
I'm looking at an older belt driven McKenzie lathe! Its about 6 feet long in total, comes with 3 and 4 jaw Chuck, all the change gears for threading, a few random tool bits and its 220vac single phase! all for 400 bucks! I'm going to pick it up one week from today!
I may need some help setting it up for metric threading. And if anyone has any info on these that would be a great help too!