I am just wondering about something. As I mentioned earlier, I am buying three machines (Axelson lathe, Monarch 16 inch lathe with sever wear, and CIncinnati 50 taper horizontal mill).
My plan from the beginning was to scrap the badly worn Monarch and CInci, and sell the Axelson, possibly after regrinding the bed. The only thing that I took off the Monarch, right now, is the tailstock and the top slide.
My question is, does it make any sense to hold on to the Monarch for a week, in order to get some valuable parts out of it, or do you think that it is entirely scrap metal material? Are the handles, gears etc worth anything? Leadscrew or some such?
I am assuming that a 16x30 Monarch weighs under 6k lbs.