Comments on: Lidl Parkside Lathe

By: ASlan Mc Cabe

ASlan Mc Cabe — Sat, 02 May 2020 12:43:26 +0000

Any news on the chuck, did it fit. I would love to buy a chuck for my parkside lathe but I have no idea of what size to get,

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:07:40 +0000

In reply to Dominic. I dunno about plenty of money Dominic, but I had a few years worth of birthday and xmas presents saved up in the form of gift vouchers for the Carpentry Store out in Naas and I went out there over the break and bought a mini lathe, one of the axminister ones, and Herself booked me into a course locally as an xmas present so I'll keep playing with this one for a while, but I think that one will take over once I get it installed...

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:13:57 +0000

Hi.i am a joiner by trade and yes this is only a light machine.but a young nephew of mine bought one a few weeks ago.the gouges are not great but you would be surprised what little projects he has made with it..ok if you have plenty of money buy a quality lathe..but for a starter lathe this is a good investment for the money

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:17:27 +0000

In reply to Sylvain.

So in order:
– it doesn’t vibrate that much when running without a blank, but that was a realllly light blank.
– it claims 550W, but I suspect that’s how much power it draws and doesn’t translate well to how much energy there is at the chuck. I strongly suspect I could stall that motor by grabbing the blank, not that I plan to try 🙂
– I don’t know why they have €99 on the website, it was €79.99 on the lidl.ie website and that’s what I paid. https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/discover-diy/woodturning-lathe/p32247
– I like Maguire’s plan and Ron Ayler (https://ronaylor.wordpress.com/) has a nice design for a spring-pole lathe with the spring pole beneath the table which is nice and compact; but even those designs would not fit into my shed, that lidl one is actually getting on for too big itself. A proper electrical mini lathe would fit; but only if I gave up doing anything else forever, which I don’t want to do.

Really do want though to stress that I’m not trusting this thing as far as I can throw it at the moment. This was a spur-of-the-moment bit of messing about and at the moment I don’t even plan to keep this thing forever. I’m going to mess with it for a while, and unless it shows it can actually do something useful, I’ll get rid of it. And I’m not treating it as very safe either 😀

By: Matt McGrane

Matt McGrane — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:49:46 +0000

Nothing like a new tool – good or bad – to get you to learn a bit. My bungee lathe, while not a good lathe at all (and my skills are commensurate with that), allows me to do things I couldn’t do before. I hope your lathe gives you some new capabilities.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:28:50 +0000

– “It vibrates a lot”
Also when running without a blank?
– 550 W is 0.75 CV which is more than a treadle lathe.
– on the Lidl web site it is advertised at 99.99 €; let’s say 100. Our government (Be) has decided that when you pay with cash the total bill is rounded to the nearest 0.05€. (but you can use 0.01 and 0.02 coins until they are suppressed at EU level)
– You could try to clamp it between a dog and the end vise.
– one day, I might try to make this:
https://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/bench-top-lathe-the-plan/
https://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/bench-top-lathe/
Sylvain