Here's one! - Great paint job on SB14 Lathe!

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Is this a repeat, or are there more and more of these out there? I like that the steady rest "has been welded with brass." He picked a nice low starting price too!!!

Eide

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Eide
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I think it is a repeat - mostly because of the the nicely coordinated floor and the splash guard considerately painted to hide the carnage within.

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Fred R

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Brent Philion

He sprayed the pulleys, the floor and the handwheels! Looking at the paint on his shop walls, I almost wonder if this is a derelict factory. I've seen some machines in derelict factories which have been sprayed by vandals. They looked similar, although silver paint is favoured by the accomplished vandal.

Chris

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Christopher Tidy

If you are going to spray paint a lathe you might as well do a good job and spray everything - right ?

And if anything should Not have been painted the paint will rub straight off when you move the carriage.

Its blue, its $2500 bucks and the seller does not stand behind anything he said in the ad. What more do you want ?

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marks542004

The only thing positive I can say is that NO ONE has bid on ANY of his

59 items. Too bad >
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RoyJ

I think you folks are failing to consider how much the "freshly oiled" job adds to the value. Plus many of the parts prone to surface rust have been painted to eliminate that problem. Example, on the steady rest all the hinge points and screws have been fully painted to prevent rust!.

Steve.

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SteveF

LOL. Yeah that sold me too. The gears are "freshly oiled". Golly. Makes me want to go bid on it right now. That ought to be worth another $500, shouldn't it? Mike

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mj

Yes, it was posted before, a great funny auction.

I even wrote the seller asking about it, he said that it was "professionally sandblasted and painted".

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Ignoramus32515

Either this is some kind of damn Christmas ornamental decoration, cosmoline has become unavailable, so people are using paint for rustproofing machines in storage, or I expect to find a couple of these hanging from the ceiling the next time I go to Cracker Barrel!

Seems we had a red, then a green, now a blue lathe, sort of like Christmas lights. Maybe it is all done with photoshop. The paint coverage on this one SURE looks exactly like the last one. Maybe I'm just mis-remembering the color, and this is just a re-listing. It ought to be, only an idiot would have bought anything in this condition. (Oh, it is, I remember his Warner & Swasey scrap iron collection! Damn, I could have SWORN it was red that time. Maybe the red was the primer coat! Funny his W & S scrap hasn't sold at $10,000 either. What an opportunity at that LOW-LOW price!)

(I'd like to see the Christmas tree THIS ornament hangs on, it's got to be a big one!)

I really like the part that if they bust it in half while putting it on a pallet, it's YOUR problem, not theirs! One wonders if that is all part of the plan. All buyers encouraged to inspect in person, at Edmond, US. Where the HELL is that, I might ask? Dallas and Chicago, you don't have to tell me the state, but I don't know Edmond.

Jon

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Jon Elson

Really, as long as he didn't use latex paint, this is pretty minor damage. Paint comes off easily. If they didn't solvent clean it, the paint on the ways ought to peel off in big strips. The gotcha, of course, is what the hell is he HIDING under all that paint? That's why nobody has bid on it. Is this really a flat belt machine? The pictures are rough enough I really can't tell what the pulley looks like.

As for starting price, check out his TEN GRAND W&S bar machines. I suppose somebody who uses these might be real interested in them for spare parts. Although after years in the rain, they may be total scrap. The 30+ year old CNC controls are, of course, only good for museum display, or to frighten prospective new employees "Yes, we're short on space INSIDE the shop, so this will be your workstation until you've been with us for two years".

Jon

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Jon Elson

Take a look at this turkey's Ford diesel tandem truck with other engine horsepower. I wonder what colour the engine is? Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

Really!

Given the wonderful condition and the give-away asking price on that beauty, I'm surprised the world isn't beating a path to his door.

As I study that piece of art, I can't help but feel badly for myself, having to tolerate that pristine Graziano I've owned for so long------and it doesn't even have painted tailstock ways. Somehow, I feel I've been cheated.

Harold

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Harold and Susan Vordos

It could be a prop for the "Blue Man Group"

Sorry< I couldn't resist

Jim Vrzal Merry Christmas from Holiday,Fl.

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Mawdeeb

Yes, that's the one we already laughed about. Only difference: I think that the pulley cover is painted black. and the fingers on the steady rest painted silver. For these improvements, the starting price is _quite_ low.

Nick

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Nick Müller

Somehow this makes me suspect that the gears might not have been "freshly oiled" when the machine was in use.

Chris

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Christopher Tidy

Smurf attack!

- - Rex Burkheimer

Eide wrote:

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Rex B

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:20:34 +0100, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@gmx.de (Nick Müller) quickly quoth:

When I lived in California, we used to say that the treatment for the steady rest was "MexiChrome."

--== May The Angst Be With You! ==-- -Yoda, on a bad day --

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Ending Your Web Page Angst.

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Larry Jaques

We have the Reindeer - a massive LUFKIN Industries Single type PUMP - Oil well - with a in shop made head and horns. Full set of lights and no sled to pull this lathe anywhere! The Reindeer has a red nose.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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Martin H. Eastburn

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