Surely not - most puffers had a hold capacity of 80 to 100 tons AFAIK. What would a lathe like that weigh? 10/12 tons?? Way beyond the derrick capacity, of course, & it would need a fair size crane to get it into the hold.
If the lathe were on one of those islands not favoured by a big ferry, I should think the removal costs would be way beyond any value it may have?
Cheers Tim
aka Dan Macphail on VIC 32 for a while circa 1980
Tim Leech Dutton Dry-Dock
Traditional & Modern canal craft repairs
Well I think mine's getting close. I just bought these two.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
Call that a slotter?
Find space for this one then:
Did you spot it's the same seller as the 18' centre lathe...
Seller? Surely shome mistake. Non seller I'd say.
c
No power feed I don't know why he bothers with where they are situated. They won't even make scrap given the cost of moving them, either complete or in pieces. He stands as much chance of selling these as I do of getting Gert to sweep my floor.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
Maybe he's looking to sell _directly_ to India or China.
Mark Rand RTFM
One of the more worrying aspects of jobs shifting abroad, is that so many far-east countries are jumping in to full NC stuff without going through the initial non-computerised stages that we had in this country and Europe.
Old Herbert and Ward lathes were a respectable export for people here, but that seems to be dying away as more and more brand-new machinery gets sold directly into China and Malaysia, which means that while up to 50% of our car content used to come in from overseas, it is going to be closer to 80% soon and rising.
Europe is going to be in a spot soon if it doesn't achieve a balance between manufacturing here and exporting most of its jobs to the far east.
When China finally catches up on wages and facilities with Malaysia etc., where is the next cheap labour country going to be ??
Peter
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He is also doing a nice line in horezontal boring machine!!
Brian James
In message , Mark Rand writes
The Indians are almost as fussy as the Chinese now. A machine tool dealer I recently did business with told me they will take nothing earlier than 1997 now.
The Chinese in many cases have better machinery than found in UK shops.
Probably Europe/USA ;-)
Regards, Tony
That lathe must be as high as my house. I wouldn't like to move it.
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