Had received my postcard from Grizzly that said "30 day notice" on one side and info on the back telling me they weren't sure when the machine would even arrive. I had been perusing CL and a nice lathe came up--email and a phone call or two was all that I needed to get an appt. for Saturday. Made the trip to Houston (kinda in the neighborhood) and dang if that machine didn't jump into my trailer. Long wet (rained all day) drive home that was compounded by a 20 mile traffic jam on I 10--had to use alternate routing.
It's a Laguna 18/47 that is less than 2yrs old and prolly has less than 4 hrs of use. Should be able to turn whatever I want. Already have put a spindle adapter on since all my chucks are 1x8---it's originally 1 1/4 x8.
Fired it up today and it's smooth, like that variable speed and has plenty of torque. Even used an out of balance blank and had no shimmy or shake at all. I'm happy.