As I thought then!They are ok if you only do small light duty stuff. I am not a fan to be honest but if it suits your application then at £300 probably worth it. At £500 it is a bit steep. It looks to have a lot of accessories which are worth having. The condition of the bed etc would be worth checking along with backlash etc in the cross slides.
No point if I can't do stuff like skim brake discs and flywheels and grind the warp out of a cylinder head!!
(Joking but you know what i mean) I'd quite like to be able to make some stuff out of billet ally.
i'd imagine it'd be OK for those wishing to make a model steam engine or summat.
and as for the backlash and the bed condition, I'd need a time-served bloke like yourself alongside me when i went to view it!