Interesting lathe paint job

Jan 13, 2009 10 Replies

ebay item 170292873919



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Some nice touches are paint on feed screws, chuck, toolholder T slot, some parts of ways, etc.


On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:10:51 -0600, the infamous Ignoramus12379 scrawled the following:

The Sullair compressor he sold was the same way. RUN AWAY!

-- Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Um, I believe that's "whays" (which the seller says are chromed). Maybe he meant "wheys" - sounds like a cheesy deal to me.

Joe

They do not look chromed to me.

Eh, probably still worth a couple hundred dollars as a parts machine, or a real rehab project...

Is it the return of Al Babin?

Pete

I had to make sure this wasn't a "the onion" parody. This has to be the worst bubba job I've seen.

Wes

I have seen one more job as bad as this one, but definitely nothing worse.

Gee that's pretty

Mark Rand RTFM

Sounds like Al B. has been reincarnated. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Gerald Miller wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Or is out on Parole!

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