There may be some other sites related to the machine tools made in Taiwan that could offer you more information. VIDEO: Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry: An Inside Look > I found the link above here in a Google search. There may be one of their long time dealers or importers in the U.S.A. I remember one complaint about some of the earlier Taiwan machines was that they didn’t have a low enough low speed for many jobs and this one looks to be 70 RPM on the low speed that seems fast for me for setting up or some threading operations. photo looks to me to be one of the earlier ones. Ĭertainly no longer the small kind of variable quality cottage industry that I often thought of these machines as coming from in the 1970 s and 1980 s.
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It looks like they have moved on considerably from manual lathes being their main product. There was a local shop that I think had a Goodway lathe larger than that one in the 1980 s and I think there was more than one dealer in Canada selling them In this video they say that Goodway started exporting machines from Taiwan in 1977 so not really age appropriate for this forum. Sorry to throw a bucket of cold water on your inquiry. "Goodway" sounds like the kind of name a Chinese marketer would dream up, but the only thing "good" about the lathe may be the name. As I wrote, the fit and workmanship on a lot of these type of "generic" Chinese lathes was never good to start with, and did not get better with use. Condition and tooling (chucks, faceplates, taper attachment, etc) all greatly affect the value of a lathe. I have no idea how much the lathe you are looking at is being sold for, nor its condition. They are regarded as "5 year throw-aways" in industry as with any kind of real usage in a working shop, they will be worn out by 5 years. GW-1440 Discontinued Model Brand GOODWAY Type Engine Lathes Specs About Company Convert Specs to Metric Swing 14' Centers 40' Spindle Bore 2' Power 5 hp RPM 55 RPM Swing Over Cross Slide 10.25' Sales Offices and Service & Repair Shops US (Edit) Sales Offices 1 Service & Repair Shops 7 Yama Seiki USA, Inc. These types of lathes were built cheaply, quality varies from one manufacturer to the next and even one production batch to the next. Quality of these machines is a mixed bag, depending on which marketer ordered the lathes made under his label and how much he wanted to pay along with what machine tool factory in China he used. "Goodway" is a marketer's name stuck onto a generic Chinese lathe.
The result is sometimes a "play" on old US names, with names like "Hartford" on Chinese clones of Bridgeport Mills, and names implying quality, strength, or similar attributes. Any number of marketers put their labels or names on these lathes. These are a common design made by a variety of factories in China (or Taiwan if one of the better lathes). However, before the thread is locked, I will say say that the "Goodway" Lathe is one of what might be termed "generic Chinese lathes". I regret to say that posts about Chinese lathes are a forbidden topic.
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