Well, red rust is very fashionable, after all. Should clean up pretty well with oil and maybe a stone, but sheesh - can't the guy at least wipe it down to get the mass of rust off? Looks to be surface rust for now, but it's obviously been stored outside. Wonder how the motor is.
If any of you end uop buying this drill, I would like to make an offer on the rust. I'd like to mix it with wax and use it to rub out my car.
Since you all like to grin at the machine tools available on eBay, take a look at this one:
Enjoy!
Chris
Anyone that can't rotate an image 90 degrees is suspect.
That sounds like "wax on" and "wax off" (from "The Karate Kid") but all in one stroke :-)
I would say that the description is ironic rather than dishonest. The starting price was perfectly honest.
It also looks to be in better condition than my drill was when I picked it up from Jon Stevenson. On this one I would put the table and base on the shaper and skim 15 thou off to return them to perfect condition. On mine, I had to weld up a large number of craters and then machine the table and base flat and skim the rust off the column. I paid £65 for mine so this drill will probably reach a fair price.
Just my point of view :-)
Mark Rand RTFM
Somehow, this DP reminds me of the song "seems it never rains in southern California" ...
Nick
"Mark Rand" wrote: I would say that the description is ironic* rather than dishonest.(clip)
*The proper term is "ferric." ;-)Notice the chap's name - johnjippy
Hmmm
Looks more like "rustic" :-O
Wow, titanium nitride coated table! NEAT!!!!
AAAARRRGGGHHHH!
Mark Rand (Running away and hiding in a dark place ;-) RTFM
Don, you might want to adjust the tint on your monitor...
Hey, it displays flesh tones just fine....
OK, but how's the "glisten"? Because that's at least as important.
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