Recent content by Cima96

Yes ****, you're right, the only problem of having a wide collection of chucks is the cost. You have to consider that the price of a quality 160mm (more or less 6") in Italy is more than 1000€ (more than 1200$). Of course you can buy also low quality tools spending 1/10 but this is not my...

Very nice lathe and very nice accessories, especially the grinder and the milling attachment. As someone as suggested, my point is to mount a smaller chuck. The three jaws in the picture is too large because if you want to hold, for example, a diameter of 3-4 inches you have to open the jaws a...

Thank you for your appreciation, of course I know also Leinen and Bison Vices but in Italy they are a bit rare especially because of the prices and weight related to the dimensions (a leinen 125 cost 456€ and weight 28kg :eek2::eek2:), so mechanics and machinists usually buy something cheaper...

This is my FZA MA6 with 100mm jaws, it weights 11kg and it's made of cast steel and not cast iorn like le majority of the vices. It's a tipical "italian vice" with the rear moving jaw that slides on prismatic guideways. I bought it for 60€ (used of course) and I clened the rust with WD40 and...

Nice, but the Toro and the Mulch Master are both powered by a Briggs & Stratton engine made in USA. So for this reason maybe they're not the best examples of "made in europe".

In my opinion the best vice you can buy is a model with dovetail guideways. It's not the classic type of vice that you can buy in the USA or in England, but here in Italy where I live it's the most common type of vice in the workshops. Someone could say that this type of vice is not the best...

Hello guys, I'm Federico but everybody calls me "Cima". Firstly I want to apologise for the language, I don't usually speak english, so I would commit surerly some mistake, please correct me if it's necessary. Than I want to say that I'm a student and I'm attending the Bologna University to...