I haven't bought anything from them yet, but I plan to in the near future. I will say that I had a question about one of their machines this last Christmas and they got back to me during the holidays with an answer. I'm lucky to even get a response from that company with the green machines...

grizzly, check it out, same ding

12x36 = 12 inch diameter work by 36 inches between centers, = 30 cm diameter by 90 cm between centers. One inch = 2.54 cm.

It looks a bit bigger in the video.... (or maybe Stan is smaller than I image !!) but that said.... it still can follow me home any day of the week ! The Taiwanese have been casting metal (for the Chinese market and for export) for about half of a century now... and they have become quite proficient at it. I wouldn't go as far as to say their castings are on par with European or American products, but they come damned close in many a case! Good luck to the winner of this fine machine ! Paddy

Stan's about 6 feet as I recall, around 180 cm at a guess. Of course he will be a bit shorter sitting on a stool or chair. After WW II, machine tools that you could buy in the US pretty much moved from US manufacture to Japan, then to Taiwan, then to S. Korea, and finally to mainland China. I wasn't around when the US started making machine tools, but I have been around for the rest of the migration. In each case the country started out making toys and junk, then got better and started making moderately low quality but useful tools, then better tools, then very good tools. China isn't to this last step yet, at least not for export tools, but they are probably about 10 years away from making really good stuff. As a data point I have a 1980 Taiwanese mill-drill made by the "Go-Well Machine Company" that is amazingly bad, but was about state of the art at the time. By 1990 things were hugely improved.

The remark about Stan's height was meant sarcastically....and you're always shorter in Imperial than you are in metric (another good reason to dump that archaic system) It is the same story in Europe.... very few original manufacturers are left. From those who are left, a portion of them will build machines based on rough castings they import from Taiwan.... European built machinery can hardly be afforded for the home-shop machinist (new that is...). One basically has to sell both kidneys AND both cornea on the black market.... Which may, I dare say, make the enthusiasm for machining dwindle somewhat... Paddy

@@gh778jk Metric sucks!!!

Winner was you tube channel "through the bulkhead" he did a follow up on getting this lathe down into his basement.

Yes sir, the 23rd of this month.

All non-responsive entries were cancelled 6-18-18 @ midnight PST.

Cuts off on the 18th, announced the 23rd during the live feed.

Yea, saw that after the upload, sorry.

It's a feature, to give you time to enter..... ;)

Actually to make my escape!

I have others coming through just fine, copy and paste this --> lathe2018@barzindustrial.com

You will pay all shipping, tariffs, port fees, taxes and customs, read your enty before sending in your donation. It could get expensive to ship it internationally.

Shadon HKW wheeeew... That will get pricey. Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. Wish I could win, and afford to win, lol. Sigh.

I can get it anywhere in the Con US for under 300, dont worry :)

Lovely looking machine, would look great in almost any shop, especially one as clean and neat as yours. don't think that international shipping would work for that, unless you send it sea freight in a container, otherwise the cost per kilo would be incredible.

You can get a good sea rate if you don't mind waiting 2-3 months, you gotta know the right people in the shipping business (which I don't)

Where did they get Texas from? Last time I visited BarZ (from Texas) it was in California. And Precision Matthews is in Pittsburgh. These might sound a lot alike to some of y'all, but believe me, there is a lot of ground between them.

Must be my Texas twang >.

Ticket 601-L Jon Jeffries