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8:12 PM
October 11, 2010
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I was searching through the travers tool website and stumbled across this.
It looks like a decent machine, it's said to be used for deburring and polishing parts with the it held in a 5C collet and a file or sand paper would be held against it. Reasonable enough if it costs $200-$500, but instead it costs $4050! I'm not joking, so why would anyone buy this thing.
9:03 PM
January 13, 2011
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Alexander, maybe it's for the guy that has everything but that. I found a steal for you at only $2600. 
http://www.overbeckmachine.com/
Sammy
3:21 AM
September 19, 2010
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Perhaps it is so that you don't have to cover the ways when using sandpaper, or if you are making batches, someone can be polishing one product while you can get started making the next one.
7:29 AM
November 15, 2010
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Maybe they are overstock from NASA- used to polish toilet seat fasteners!
12:08 PM
February 10, 2011
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Reading the spiel on their website is seems to provide the advantage of rapid run up and stopping. I can see the sense in that, polishing small parts might take less time than it would take for a regular lathe to some up to seed, hence increased productivity.
As for the price, dunno, possibly a product of short batch runs.
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