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A Hobbymat MD65 lathe - we had a new one of these in a while back, I was impressed at the quality of engineering in what is quite a small bench lathe. This one isn't new by any means - you could even go so far as to say it looks a bit scruffy - however, there are no horrendous lumps carved out of the bed, all the knobs go round as designed and the chuck goes round when you plug it in.

There are some bits and pieces with it, as shown in the pictures. Before anybody asks - yes, I'm sure this isn't a complete set of change wheels and no, I can't see why that would be a drawback. I can't imagine there's a man left living who still sets up to screwcut threads using changewheels (I think I last did it, on a Myford, in about 1992).