Anyone ever used/seen one of these?

CrownCityCorey said:
:eek: I guess no one has any experience of opinion of these lathes?
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The only people here that might have seen one would be Linds or Edwin Reyes I think as they frequent Japan.:eek:
Joey~Only visits Japan on a fly-over~
 
What's the Deal with these things?

You know, I have seen a lot of these type spinners lately. Some are home made devices, and this one appears to be a professional tool. I just don't get it. All these little spinners appear to do is to install new tips onto shafts. Why in the world would someone buy a machine like this? If you are a casual player, it is much more economical just to fork out twenty bucks and have a pro install a new tip. If, on the other hand, you want to make a few bucks installing tips, why not just go ahead and buy a little lathe that can actually do come other work besides spin a cue shaft? Heck guys, when you get down to it, you don't really have to have a lathe to install a tip. There are all kinds of shapers that you can turn manually to get a reasonably good job. So,...am I missing something here? What is the deal with these things? Why would anybody buy one?
 
Krypto said:
You know, I have seen a lot of these type spinners lately. Some are home made devices, and this one appears to be a professional tool. I just don't get it. All these little spinners appear to do is to install new tips onto shafts. Why in the world would someone buy a machine like this? If you are a casual player, it is much more economical just to fork out twenty bucks and have a pro install a new tip. If, on the other hand, you want to make a few bucks installing tips, why not just go ahead and buy a little lathe that can actually do come other work besides spin a cue shaft? Heck guys, when you get down to it, you don't really have to have a lathe to install a tip. There are all kinds of shapers that you can turn manually to get a reasonably good job. So,...am I missing something here? What is the deal with these things? Why would anybody buy one?
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There are a ton of small/middle sized towns in this country who have no repair people.
Heck, even here in Orange County, there is a demand for repair people.
I'd take on repairs if I had time. But, I don't.
 
Krypto said:
You know, I have seen a lot of these type spinners lately. Some are home made devices, and this one appears to be a professional tool. I just don't get it. All these little spinners appear to do is to install new tips onto shafts. Why in the world would someone buy a machine like this? If you are a casual player, it is much more economical just to fork out twenty bucks and have a pro install a new tip. If, on the other hand, you want to make a few bucks installing tips, why not just go ahead and buy a little lathe that can actually do come other work besides spin a cue shaft? Heck guys, when you get down to it, you don't really have to have a lathe to install a tip. There are all kinds of shapers that you can turn manually to get a reasonably good job. So,...am I missing something here? What is the deal with these things? Why would anybody buy one?
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On top of what Joey said, More toys.
 
Obviously I've never seen one up close, and have no idea the cost, or if it's even worth the cost, but from the pics it looks slighty better then a spinner setup, and might be a deal if priced close to one. If It's priced in the same area as the hightower, then the choice would be obvious, but For one thing the shaft fits inside the spindle (look at the first picture for a example), altough I don't know how true It holds the shaft without seeing one in action. Secondly It appears to have a tool post that works off of linear rods (something I have made before for a centering slide), and even has a steady bearing. It may be kind of limited, but looks like you could atleast do tips and ferrules on pro tapered shafts. I don't know If you can set the slide up to cut a full tapered ferrule, but could always do a straight cut leaving the end big and board sand the end of the taper in to size if you had no choice.

Most definatly if you live in a town that has no repair guy, there will be people happy to have someone doing repair. You just have to locate some, and let them know what your doing, and If you do good work, then word of mouth moves quickly. Hand tools can do the work, and do take some skill to master, but are not very efficient if your getting alot of work, and spend the extra time to make them look like they were done on quality equipment. I don't regret ever having to use hand tools in the begining, because I learned a few tricks from it, some of which I still ocasionally use, but I could'nt keep up with the flow If I had to use them now.
 
> It seems to me that the detachable steady rest needs to be used behind the back device,that much of a shaft hanging out the back even with a collet of some kind seems risky. I'll bet it's really underpowered for shaft sanding too. It's probably overpriced to boot. Tommy D.
 
Adam Cue Tipping Lathe

I contacted Adam Cues in the US and their reply was they are waiting for the price from their supplier of these. Maybe we'll have a cheap usable quick tool to do tips with soon. I bought an Atlas lathe to do tips with because I wanted to experiment with all the different brands out there. It does the job but for what I need, it was too expensive. It will also be too big when I sell the house and move to a condo. :D
 
EDRJR said:
I contacted Adam Cues in the US and their reply was they are waiting for the price from their supplier of these. Maybe we'll have a cheap usable quick tool to do tips with soon. I bought an Atlas lathe to do tips with because I wanted to experiment with all the different brands out there. It does the job but for what I need, it was too expensive. It will also be too big when I sell the house and move to a condo. :D
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If it's coming from Japan, I doubt it will be cheap. The American dollar is super weak against the Yen.
 
Krypto said:
If you are a casual player, it is much more economical just to fork out twenty bucks and have a pro install a new tip.

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There are all kinds of shapers that you can turn manually to get a reasonably good job. So,...am I missing something here? What is the deal with these things? Why would anybody buy one?
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Who will pay me $20 for a reasonably good tip job?
If you want to do cue repair for money so so is NEVER good enough.
It is either right or it isnt.

However I do agree that if someone wants to start doing cue work they should make the investment for a machine that can do more than just tips and ferrules. A good machine holds it value very well.
 
Adam Lathe Price

I heard from the Adam Cues. Their price for the lathe from the factory is $1500 with a minimum order of 100 units before shipping! Too much for them to order any. I think it is way overpriced for that machine. I'm guessing it is moving through too many distributors before Adams can buy it. If anyone ever sees one up close overseas, try to find out who the actual manufacturer is.
 
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