Not affiliated with these guys, but had to post a link. I sure wish I was up in that area. I would have a flatbed over there in a heartbeat!!!
http://longisland.craigslist.org/zip/558927349.html
AOL pictures link they sent me:
http://pictures.aol.com/ap/viewAlbum.do ... 92784151.3
Somebody wanna pick one up for me!?
FREE LATHES!!! Anybody in NY!?!?
Wow, talk about too good to be true! You got to wonder if that was for real! The posting on Cragslist was deleted, but I still got to see the pics. Bet the guy was swamped with takers for those. I can imagine a line of flatbeds all racing toward Long Island....
Scott E. Thile
Collector, smoker, and aspiring pipemaker.
http://sethilepipes.com
Sysop: http://pipedia.org
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Collector, smoker, and aspiring pipemaker.
http://sethilepipes.com
Sysop: http://pipedia.org
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I sent an email; I'd have gone up there for the Hardinge or the W&S #2, everything else was too big. Didn't get a reply, I agree that the whole deal seems kind of odd, but I've seen big turret lathes go for $100 at auctions because they're so hard to move and it's pretty hard to compete with CNC using one. If you're a pipemaker with ground floor access to your shop, have a reinforced concrete floor (around a foot of 3000-lb mix with plenty or re-bar should do), and the means to move a 5000-lb machine . . . no? Oh, well. Just hope they went to shops, and not to a scrapper.
Sounds like a job for SuperJack! Leaps tall lathes in a single bound!Briarfox wrote:I have a clasuing/atlas just like the one in photo 1! However, when the tool carriage is engaged its leaks oil.
Ummm....or is it, Binds small lathes in a single phase!
Regards,
Frank.
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Frank.
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Grouch Happens!
People usually get the gods they deserve - Terry Pratchett