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    Default Hafco AL-400

    Anyone know much about the Hafco AL-400 Lathe or have a manual.
    Shane

    Got the square peg in the round hole, now can't get it out !!

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    Gday Auscart


    While its not the Hafco AL-400 manual, the link below is to a Grizzly 4003G which I think is pretty close being
    a 12 x 36 lathe and with the same gearbox controls according to a Grays online illustration of an AL-400.

    http://cdn2.grizzly.com/manuals/g4003g_m.pdf

    If not, have a ferret around in grizzly's website as there are a ton of lathe manuals there.

    My lathe is a metal master 1236, which I believe are the same generic lathe except for the diffrent gearbox rotary knobs instead of levers.

    The Grizzly manual a far better manual than than the rubbishy photocopy of a photocopy which originally came with my lathe. I supect the other generics are no better.

    Grahame

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    Thanks Grahame, much appreciated.

    Actually the AL-400 is a 13" x 40" lathe.
    Shane

    Got the square peg in the round hole, now can't get it out !!

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    Auskart,

    I have a 13x40 lathe made by Shaoxing which appears to be identical to the AL400 lathe. Mine is badged as a type CQ6240. Shaoxing also made the CQ6230 type lathe. Mine appears to be identical to the CQ6230 type lathe, the same as the Grizzly 4003G, but with an extra inch of swing and 4 inches longer bed. The manual which came with mine was the CQ6230 manual. The manual was printed in China, and is not as good as the Grizzly 4003G manual referred to by Grahame, though there may be some differences in the electrical section - I haven't checked.

    Interestingly, though mined is badged as a CQ6240, Googling CQ6240 brings up a completely different lathe.

    I bought mine new in, I think, 1996. Except for the usual failure of the original starter capacitor early in the peace it has been trouble free, but it has really done very little work. There are much better (and more expensive) lathes around, but it does what I want it to. Would I buy one now under the same circumstances? Probably yes.

    Frank.

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