I've lost a lot of ground on lathes. I once had a little benchtop forget the brand. it was sold under at least 2-3 brand names, and "in it's day" was pretty fair. Stay away from HF, the lower end Chinese stuff. Grizzly is good. Older stuff, Sears sold their larger lathes in made by Atlas, but sold a little 6" I think Dunlop? It was not "much" and then of course there's South Bend. All of that older stuff can be expensive to update.....better tool holders, etc, and CAN BE WORN both spindle bearings and the ways and so on.
Make sure you find something that has support such as for taper attachments and that it can do threading and so on
