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It appears that Mikbul has put his SB 8K lathe on the market: http://albany.craigslist.org/tls/5424751193.html

A significant percentage of the market for a small lathe like this(1) would be those baby-boomers who are interested in the HSM, or allied, hobbies. As that market approaches saturation, (or shrinkage because of BB ageing and death), it could only be sustained by younger generations stepping...

tlfamm: >>After 30 years in the business, one presumes that Grizzly indeed knows how to negotiate a contract, knows how to stipulate quality metrics, knows how to stipulate penalty clauses for failure to meet agreed upon requirements, and knows how to chose a reputable supplier. Wizard69...

"It just wasn't selling at the price point they needed to keep it in production." That's it in a nutshell. If the lathe were selling, Grizzly would not have ended production, and would not have allowed any supplier problems to interfere with production.

Grizzly is not some casual, victimized bystander in this affair. If indeed their chosen supplier could not/would not meet reasonable standards of quality, the solution is certainly not for Grizzly to throw up their hands in despair and abandon the product, meanwhile pushing a defective...

Frequently Grizzly is just acting as a big-box retailer, selling whatever products the factory chooses to produce, sometimes with small scale Grizzly-designed enhancements. But in the case of the SB1001, Grizzly guided the whole product development from design to production, including choosing...

If I'm interpreting your post correctly, the replacement bearings sent by Grizzly were inferior to the auto transmission bearings the machine was originally equipped with? So the replacement bearings would be what - rickshaw bearings? Doesn't this answer the question I posed previously...

Here's an owner who did add an axa QCTP to his SB1001: http://kent-vandervelden.blogspot.com/2013/11/aloris-axa-on-south-bend-sb1001-lathe.html The compound has to be milled, and it's questionable whether or not there is really enough meat on it to anchor the mounting stud.

(My inaugural post, 5 years after joining) I've been alternately fascinated at the resiliency and persistence of the OP, and sometimes annoyed at the uneven support provided by Grizzly to new owners of the SB1001. The machine has caught my attention, and I've given some consideration to...