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Sounds too simple, it would take away my joy of playing on the machines and tinkering. Why make it simple when you can over-engineer the hell out of it and make it twice as complicated at twice the price.Recovry4x4 said:
Hi Bob, I'm not sure who you were nice enough to offer your lathe to, if it was for me, thank you very much. That is indeed very generous. If there is something I can help you out with please let me know. I have a double bay shop here below the house and garage and have both a 13 x 40 gap bed engine lathe, a smaller tinkering lathe for quick little stuff. A very small vert mill and a J head 1 1/2 horse vert mill with lots of various tooling including a powered 18 inch rotary table that has really proved its worth and has saved my other rotary tables for other work. The usual welders, drill presses, spot welders and on and on. I love to tinker. The lathe was quite a deal, it sells for over 8,500 through MSC, I bought it used in excellent at an auction for 1,500 with a couple of chucks. The mill I paid just under a thousand for but completely disassembled it and rebuilt it. Not the best around but it works great for my shop. I've since attached digital readouts on the X,Y, and Z travels. My son had come home from college a few years back and we decided to go to the swap meet out on I-76. While my bride and he were locking horns abot how to lay out their stuff I strolled down the isle. There sitting under a table was a brand new 5 horse rotary inverter. I asked the gent what he wanted for it and he replied, "Do you know what they are worth". I said yes, and he replied "How much will you give me for it". I looked at him and said it's yours, what do you want. He came back with 50 bucks. I nearly broke my arm trying to get my wallet out of my pocket quick enough. He said I could leave it there until I could get something to carry that big motor off with. I just laughed and picked it up and took it back to the truck with me. I spent the next two weeks and a lot of coin rewiring the shop and adding more service. Thanks again Bob.Trango said:
Same here Bob. I would be more than happy to help out with a project. I've sold my 64 Dodge Crew, and one of my M101A1's, and am just about finished making sure everything is ready to go on the 85 Dodge Crew to put it up for sale. My goal is to get rid of all the partial and dreaming projects and concentrate on a Bobbed Deuce. I actually have my Bride of 32 years postive acknowledgement to go ahead with the "Bob", something I have in the past pretty much not involved her with. It feels kind of strange to have the Mrs. input saying she likes it.Trango said:
