FREE LATHES!!! Anybody in NY!?!?

hollywood · Post by **hollywood** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:44 am

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!?

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:05 am

Holy smokes, this is one of those right place/right time deals. Somebody get that Hardinge 59. And a Warner & Swasey No. 2!

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:35 pm

Crikey!!!

If I had the time and money to rent a liftgate truck, I'd be there in a heartbeat!

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:38 pm

Good heavens!!

Is he seriously just giving that stuff away? I guess we West Coasters can only dream.

kbadkar · Post by **kbadkar** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:41 pm

Dang! Why do these opportunities always arise so far from home?

Those machines make me salivate. Good find Hollywood, I hope someone from this forum benefits.

sethile · Post by **sethile** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:32 am

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....

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:51 am

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.

Briarfox · Post by **Briarfox** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:14 pm

I have a clasuing/atlas just like the one in photo 1! However, when the tool carriage is engaged its leaks oil.

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:43 pm

Briarfox wrote:I have a clasuing/atlas just like the one in photo 1! However, when the tool carriage is engaged its leaks oil.

Sounds like a job for SuperJack! Leaps tall lathes in a single bound!

Ummm....or is it, Binds small lathes in a single phase!