I stumbled across this lathe that the owner of the shop wants to unload. I don't want it but it might be usefull to you guys. I looks kind of special in that there is no tailstock and the saddle is set-up for turning ball ends or such. The headstock has some kind of collet set-up. Help me identify what it is and what it's worth, I might get a commision if I help find it a home. I'm sure she will take anything over scrap value for it. Needs a good cleaning but looks in good shape.
With a cross slide and a turret, it would be worth about $1500-2000 in todays market.
I happen to have both , I think, along with a spindle nose cut off slide.
Really, thats a nice machine and tooling it up would be fairly easy. Its a second ops machine, and while its not very handy for regular turning, it may be tooled with a compound, cross slide, tailstock, turret etc. With the minimal tooling on it, Id offer her at least $250-500
OOOO! It Does have a compound, which is the most expensive goodie. Add a tailstock ($300-500 generally..I may be able to do better) and a regular tool holder and you have a nice 5c turning machine for small parts.
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That's not the "real" compound for those machines, it's a funny one (been seeing a lot of those lately) for doing radii or something. Somebody said it was for contact lenses at one point.
Granted it's variable speed, but it did seem to be a *bit* rough.
I got my DSM-59 (split bed version) with bed turret, unused tailstock, compound, collets, chucks, faceplate, double cross slide, drill chucks, etc, for six hundred.
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