Looking for a shaper in Seattle?

Turned out to be a 12" Vernon. At that price, I couldn't resist. It's going to be a bear to get out of there, though. Probably take me a whole day. A 12" shaper with variable speed motor and swivel vise seems to me to be about optimal for a home shop. It's only a little bigger than my old Atlas 7" shaper, but much beefier.

Actually, it might be an 11" shaper, I don't know yet. It'll be awhile before I get another look at it, either.

Grant

Koz wrote:

Correction, that's an 11" Vernon apparently.

GWE

Grant Erw> Turned out to be a 12" Vernon. At that price, I couldn't resist. It's

Boy, for an old man, you sure do move fast! You seemed to have read the first posting and looked at the shaper, and posted a response in only an hour and a quarter. Must have been a HELL of a bargin. The listing was gone when I checked.

Let us know the rest of the story when it happens.

Paul Redm> Correction, that's an 11" Vernon apparently.

Well, I sort of won the race to get there. It's the advantage of being my own boss, and having a big fast motorcycle to knife through morning rush hour traffic. Seller told me 18 other people called within 15 minutes after I did, he was a tad regretful he didn't do a little more homework on pricing. He has a humongous amount of machine tools to get rid of. Anyone got an idea how much a huge old Brown & Sharpe horizontal mill with a pile of arbors, spacers, cutters and vises might be worth? He also has a Cincinnati No. 2 tool & cutter grinder, a heat treating oven, 2 lathes, a hydraulic surface grinder, and a bunch of woodworking tools. Everything's old, filthy, and covered with things like bent bicycles.

Grant

snipped-for-privacy@co> Boy, for an old man, you sure do move fast! You seemed to have read the

Geez Grant,

ya mean ya didn't offer $150 each for all of them too!!.. :-)

--.- Dave

I might've but I don't have room & can't move 'em anymore. The shaper's 800 pounds as it is. It's like getting married again, sigh.

Grant

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:36:56 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, Grant Erwin quickly quoth:

I hear that. I've been carrying around the horizontal mill in my truck for 5 weeks now and finally got down to the metalmongers and picked up a stick of angle arn yesterday. Price for a 20' stick of 1-1/2" x

I don't believe you married an 800 pound woman. No way! ;-)

Aw, it's just an old joke. Down by Seattle University for many years (might still be there) was an ancient truck scale and my buddies and I used to tease each other when we drove by it, saying "You gotta haul your wife down here to weigh her yet?" Pretty mean-spirited, but we kept it "in the family" and we sure found it funny ..

GWE

So, I was right. I knew you couldn't carry 800 pounds across the threshold. ;-)