Very nice of you to do this for Gill, and what a beautiful machine it is. Also - Adam, congratulations on 200,000 subscribers man! SNS is usually the highlight of my Saturday afternoons, not to mention all the other great content. You're awesome, man.
That's the deal of the century. I have no place to put it otherwise I'd have already been on the road with my trailer. I work on tube electronics fairly often. Take care of those EL16J's (and the other tubes for that matter) when it goes to a new home. I'd pull the tubes, wrap a protective pad around them, put them in a box, but padding around the box, and put the box in another box. My guess is that someone has "modernized" one of these but I think I'd want to run it with the tubes, especially in the winter :)
I love learning new things. A tube drive? What the heck? I thought they were reserved for radios and such but didn't think about the old control electronics that used tubes. Wow.
I have the pleasure of machining on a 1952 10EE almost every day at work. It also came from the Navy. Just made a nice part on it Thursday with the help of a 10EE steady rest. These are some of the best tool room lathes ever made in my opinion, hands down. You can’t beat a Monarch lathe. Get ya a six jaw Buck chuck, 5C collet chuck, collets, DRO, then you’ll be set.
That tool tray at 3:29 looks more "custom fabricated" than "homemade" to me... A well-restored/maintained, fully accessorized machine - the lucky new owner should be in for a treat!
If I had a place to put it I would be on my way to Navarre now. Gill will sell that lathe in less than two days if he hasn't already sold it. Lots of home gamers looking for 10EE and to me the tube rectifier is the classic.
Our Tool & Die Shop and also our (non-CNC) Machine Shop both have nothing but Monarch 10EEs, when just talking lathes. We think so highly of them that we have them rebuilt to like new condition when one wears enough. Ours are Navy-purchased lathes, and they still are!
Adam: I was talking to your Monarch just the other day and it mentioned just how much it would like to have a little baby brother to play with.Go ahead and make two lathes happy!
I have two 10EE lathes. One is 1942, one is 1956. They are the most amazing machines I have ever used. Mine are in comparable shape to this. I wouldn’t trade either for anything.
Great to see these old 1959 machines still working in really great condition. Also very interesting to see the 2 large tubes still working with blue heater lights. I suspect these tubes are probably used as part of the main motor speed control circuit. Please confirm.
Exactly. We have a similar electronic vacuum-tube era DC speed controller on one of ours (see above). No millenial even recalls 'vacuum tubes' in electronics, but the very earliest computers and radio through most of the 20th century, and radar, and TV and industrial controls etc. ALL ran by vacuum tubes. Dad's '57 Oldsmobile Rocket 88, already had the mini-tubes in the radio, then in the '60s, transistors replaced vacuum tubes. Funny thing a FEW devices still use them! .
Man, crazy to see this for sale. It was this machine on your videos 3-4 years ago that inspired me to get a lathe and i knew nothing about them, i just knew i wanted this model after i saw Gil's. $6K seems like a really good price considering the condition its in. I hope everything works out for Gil.
I bought a 1954 10EE turrett lathe, it was super cheap, runs good, i took the turret off and put a regular tail stock on. At the time, i didnt know what i was buying lol, but it doesn't have a lead screw for threading, which is a bummer. I think given ti was a turrett lathe it was used in production and has alot of wear in the cross slide, and some other hacking has been done on it, but i use it alot and like it, spindle is very solid and quiet just like gil's
I have been shopping for a lathe for 2 years and would like nothing more than to take this off his hands, but, alas, if I had 6k, I would probably have already solved this problem of not owning a lathe! I wish you the best of luck finding a good home for it. It's a beautiful machine. I'll probably end up with a cheap chinese fixer upper for my first.
GLWS Gill!! I still remember the video where you and Adam were moving the mill into the garage and you had to move the lathe around. You'll find a good home for her very quickly. Hope everything is ok though. Selling off all your things is never usually a good sign. God bless and take care.
Those tubes are some tough tubes... and actually, are not hard to find, and there is two company's that can sill make them, and, I wouldn't doubt, that they have them on the shelves, they are not cheap, but, they do last a life time, and the tubes in this machine, will like be willed to your grand children.. Although, the tube tech may seem vintage, that control type is very smooth and rugged . In fact, I wish I had those driver tubes for another project, that requires a high factor of reliability... I just reread what I wrote, I sound like a car salesmen, sorry, I just fancy tube power supply's, and drivers, and controllers, let alone, the audio tube amps, but that is another story... Nice looking machine!
Originally sold to NAS Lakehurst... which is where my father was stationed when I was born... 14 years after it got there. Bet it wasn't even broke in good yet.
My dream lathe.. I am currently restoring a Myford Super 7... hopefully one day I will be able to restore enough machines and trade up / afford a Monarch
If that thing was still at NAS Lakehurst in 1972, then I've seen it....but not used it (I was not, and am not, qualified since my job was avionics) touring several workcenters while I was stationed there!! Contrary to popular belief, equipment like that (or anything even semi-critical), although it would have seen a lot of hard use, was meticulously maintained since tolerances on aircraft and aircraft parts are super tight, and parts/assemblies are rejected for the slightest deviation from spec. Gil comes across as a guy who would have continued to maintain it real well, so the new owner is going to be very happy with a fine piece of machinery! :-)
Vacuum Tube rectifiers...a friend of mine has a 'Jig bore' and updated the vacuum tube with solid state rectifiers...you need a little electronics knowledge, and the schematic. Back in the 1950's, solid state (silicon) rectifiers were just a dream...
These are very nice lathes, I have been using one now for 5 years and can't wait to use it every day. Mine is a 53 and is the deluxe model with all the options including imperial and metric dials. It was sold to Hughs Aviation in 53 for 6748.00. Monarch sent me the invoice apon request. I cleaned and painted it red with freehand pinstripes. I see it is also feature on Google's Monarch 10ee images. I have a feeling you will not be satisfied with a smaller lathe, but good luck.
The easiest models to maintain with tubes are made from 1960 to 1983, from around 1975 to 1983 are outstanding machines, After 1983, the regenerative DC drive machines require utility 3phase power to work correctly. Be sure to research before diving in,
Monarch made manual lathes for at least 105 years before introducing their CNC line in 1994. The original Monarch died in 2000 (along with most of the machine tool industry) but there are 4 spinoffs still running.
Those tubes are high power rectifier tubes to run the DC motor. They glow blue when powered on. But yes in that way they do make the power for the variable speed motor.
Oh ok so it is not a Triode or something for generating a variable voltage to spin the electric motor at differend speeds... ? Anyway it is big and beautyful :D
That's a beautiful lathe. The vacuum tube power supply on the thing is beautiful. I wonder if those tubes fail whether you'd be able to get replacements.
There's actually a semiconductor replacement being made for the C16Js. See the Monarch forum on practicalmachinist.com for details. I suggested that I'd buy some when he adds the light show so they look the same running. For now I've got 6 spare tubes...
Holy cow!! My deisil Fiat Doblo won't rev that high! ;) Hope it goes to a good home. Would have it in a heart beat but for the fact i am in the UK and my shed ( which is not even built yet ) will only have a wood floor.... Thinking about a mini lathe/mill combo later down the road. Want to focus on wood butchery first, getting into metal means cutting, grinding, welding, fab, lathe, mill, whole new set of tooling and set up. Maybe I can build another shed for that next year lol :)
In ~ 2001 Seattle city maintenance put a Monarch that size in the parking lot for the scrap many to pick up for free. They replaced it with a new Chinese lathe. I posted that on rec.crafts.metalworking and a guy went there to get it, but was a day late. If you research this on google groups, I may be off by a year.
Adam you should get this 10EE . It will be great collection for the monarch you have now and the big monarch you going to have in future. Thats a neat lathe
Used Navy stuff...they probably bought it with all the 'goodies', then used very little. Same here in N.California at the Mare island Navy Shipyard...lots of really BIG stuff ...
I don't know why, but this video seemed really sad. It was almost like Gill was doing something that he really didn't want to do, but had no choice in the matter.
Scissio Controls developed a solid state replacement for the large C16J Thyratron tubes. I'm running them in my 10ee, operation with the solid state units is indistinguishable from the analog tubes. www.scissiocontrols.com/store/c5/For_Monarch_10ee_Lathe.html
Hate to see you sale it Gil, I know you have a lot of time in it, I saw the pictures of it when you got it, 6k is a smoking deal. Monarch would probably pay that for it. You know they refurbish them and ask 100k or more for them. I have a 1962 module drive and I wouldn't consider a penny less that 10k for it if it were for sale. Good luck with the move.
Can't beat vintage,, I've bought and restored 6 atlas lathes in the past 2 year's and even though it's not near the monarch quality I've seen the prices triple on mine,, even 60 years old still much better then the new lathes.
The tubes were a big improvement over the units with the hydraulic variable speed drive of course those were old 40 years ago Our last one had the fully functioning taper attachment and 6 position tail stock turret which is a work of art in itself
The hydraulic drive was replaced quickly with a Ward Leonard motor generator driving a DC motor. My 10EE from 1942 still runs fine with it. The tube system is great, but the tubes are difficult to find if one goes bad.
Agreed, although I have a 10" with a 52" bed and I find that 95% of my work is done within 12" of the head stock. I absolutely love the size of the saddle. It is a monster. Best of machining to the fella or gal that purchases it!
I hear ya brother, I depends on what kind of work you do. I make stationary model steam engines. In our area long bed lathes are not really desirable and tend to be less expensive... He said he did not have a steady rest but really for that short bed who would need it. Perhaps a follow rest would be more desirable. Keep makin chips!
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Very nice of you to do this for Gill, and what a beautiful machine it is. Also - Adam, congratulations on 200,000 subscribers man! SNS is usually the highlight of my Saturday afternoons, not to mention all the other great content. You're awesome, man.
That's the deal of the century. I have no place to put it otherwise I'd have already been on the road with my trailer.
I work on tube electronics fairly often. Take care of those EL16J's (and the other tubes for that matter) when it goes to a new home. I'd pull the tubes, wrap a protective pad around them, put them in a box, but padding around the box, and put the box in another box. My guess is that someone has "modernized" one of these but I think I'd want to run it with the tubes, especially in the winter :)
I love learning new things. A tube drive? What the heck? I thought they were reserved for radios and such but didn't think about the old control electronics that used tubes. Wow.
I have the pleasure of machining on a 1952 10EE almost every day at work. It also came from the Navy. Just made a nice part on it Thursday with the help of a 10EE steady rest. These are some of the best tool room lathes ever made in my opinion, hands down. You can’t beat a Monarch lathe. Get ya a six jaw Buck chuck, 5C collet chuck, collets, DRO, then you’ll be set.
Have a 1970 10EE that puts a smile on my face every time I use it.
That tool tray at 3:29 looks more "custom fabricated" than "homemade" to me...
A well-restored/maintained, fully accessorized machine - the lucky new owner should be in for a treat!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the price is practically stealing it. Really nice machine.
Nice machine! I have never seen tubes on a metal working machine before. That is so cool. Thanks for sharing this!
It sucks that he has to get rid of it, but you are an excellent friends for helping him liquidate
If I had a place to put it I would be on my way to Navarre now. Gill will sell that lathe in less than two days if he hasn't already sold it. Lots of home gamers looking for 10EE and to me the tube rectifier is the classic.
Our Tool & Die Shop and also our (non-CNC) Machine Shop both have nothing but Monarch 10EEs, when just talking lathes. We think so highly of them that we have them rebuilt to like new condition when one wears enough. Ours are Navy-purchased lathes, and they still are!
Adam: I was talking to your Monarch just the other day and it mentioned just how much it would like to have a little baby brother to play with.Go ahead and make two lathes happy!
wow it runs so quiet and smooth.
Never saw a vacuum tube drive. It looks so cool!
I have two 10EE lathes. One is 1942, one is 1956. They are the most amazing machines I have ever used. Mine are in comparable shape to this. I wouldn’t trade either for anything.
watching those tubes light through the panel is something else.
Beautiful machine. 6 k is a steal.
That's a beautiful machine, and it's p awesome of you to lend him your audience to help it find a good home.
I love Gills shop dog! That thing is adoreable. Well the lathe is too really. :-)
Great to see these old 1959 machines still working in really great condition. Also very interesting to see the 2 large tubes still working with blue heater lights. I suspect these tubes are probably used as part of the main motor speed control circuit. Please confirm.
Exactly. We have a similar electronic vacuum-tube era DC speed controller on one of ours (see above). No millenial even recalls 'vacuum tubes' in electronics, but the very earliest computers and radio through most of the 20th century, and radar, and TV and industrial controls etc. ALL ran by vacuum tubes. Dad's '57 Oldsmobile Rocket 88, already had the mini-tubes in the radio, then in the '60s, transistors replaced vacuum tubes. Funny thing a FEW devices still use them! .
Man that is an awesome machine. I wish I was making a trip to Florida this month it would be in my shop. Good luck hope it goes to a good home.
I don't know why, but I always find it very sad to know someone is selling their tools.
"the tears and devastation of a once proud manufacturing nation"
Man, crazy to see this for sale. It was this machine on your videos 3-4 years ago that inspired me to get a lathe and i knew nothing about them, i just knew i wanted this model after i saw Gil's. $6K seems like a really good price considering the condition its in. I hope everything works out for Gil.
That's great to hear Gary. What did you end up buying?
I bought a 1954 10EE turrett lathe, it was super cheap, runs good, i took the turret off and put a regular tail stock on. At the time, i didnt know what i was buying lol, but it doesn't have a lead screw for threading, which is a bummer. I think given ti was a turrett lathe it was used in production and has alot of wear in the cross slide, and some other hacking has been done on it, but i use it alot and like it, spindle is very solid and quiet just like gil's
I have been shopping for a lathe for 2 years and would like nothing more than to take this off his hands, but, alas, if I had 6k, I would probably have already solved this problem of not owning a lathe!
I wish you the best of luck finding a good home for it. It's a beautiful machine.
I'll probably end up with a cheap chinese fixer upper for my first.
This will probably be the fastest selling lathe ever...
Only 3 hours before the real buyers started emailing him. I think he's got a sale pending.
GLWS Gill!! I still remember the video where you and Adam were moving the mill into the garage and you had to move the lathe around. You'll find a good home for her very quickly.
Hope everything is ok though. Selling off all your things is never usually a good sign. God bless and take care.
Those tubes are some tough tubes... and actually, are not hard to find, and there is two company's that can sill make them, and, I wouldn't doubt, that they have them on the shelves, they are not cheap, but, they do last a life time, and the tubes in this machine, will like be willed to your grand children.. Although, the tube tech may seem vintage, that control type is very smooth and rugged . In fact, I wish I had those driver tubes for another project, that requires a high factor of reliability... I just reread what I wrote, I sound like a car salesmen, sorry, I just fancy tube power supply's, and drivers, and controllers, let alone, the audio tube amps, but that is another story... Nice looking machine!
Originally sold to NAS Lakehurst... which is where my father was stationed when I was born... 14 years after it got there. Bet it wasn't even broke in good yet.
My dream lathe.. I am currently restoring a Myford Super 7... hopefully one day I will be able to restore enough machines and trade up / afford a Monarch
This machine with tooling... $6k is a deal!
I was guessing 10k...
Yea you could almost reflip it for more lol
Don’t know how to use it, don’t have the space for it, don’t have the money for it........
......but I still want it 😁
If that thing was still at NAS Lakehurst in 1972, then I've seen it....but not used it (I was not, and am not, qualified since my job was avionics) touring several workcenters while I was stationed there!! Contrary to popular belief, equipment like that (or anything even semi-critical), although it would have seen a lot of hard use, was meticulously maintained since tolerances on aircraft and aircraft parts are super tight, and parts/assemblies are rejected for the slightest deviation from spec. Gil comes across as a guy who would have continued to maintain it real well, so the new owner is going to be very happy with a fine piece of machinery! :-)
Probably sold before I even got the notification, lol.
I'd have grabbed this in a heartbeat if it was for sale last November.
Vacuum Tube rectifiers...a friend of mine has a 'Jig bore' and updated the vacuum tube with solid state rectifiers...you need a little electronics knowledge, and the schematic. Back in the 1950's, solid state (silicon) rectifiers were just a dream...
Good old thyratron. Sounds so sci-fi.
Keith Rucker is probably already in contact with Gil. He has a 10EE that needs a lot of work and a huge shop that needs to be filled up.
I’m sure he’d love it but he’s got a growing list of shop needs that keep adding up.
Omg! If im not too far, i'll bring this "lady" home for sure.
I knew that would go pretty fast!! I wish there were machines like that available in my neckof the woods.
same!
These are very nice lathes, I have been using one now for 5 years and can't wait to use it every day. Mine is a 53 and is the deluxe model with all the options including imperial and metric dials. It was sold to Hughs Aviation in 53 for 6748.00. Monarch sent me the invoice apon request. I cleaned and painted it red with freehand pinstripes. I see it is also feature on Google's Monarch 10ee images. I have a feeling you will not be satisfied with a smaller lathe, but good luck.
The easiest models to maintain with tubes are made from 1960 to 1983, from around 1975 to 1983 are outstanding machines, After 1983, the regenerative DC drive machines require utility 3phase power to work correctly. Be sure to research before diving in,
Good luck & good health to the new owner. She sure is a beautiful lathe.
Gill, please reconsider selling and do everything possible to keep it. It’s a very compact lathe, and you will forever miss it. All the best.
Yeah I would never sell this unless there was a need for the exact same machine in better shape.
I am sure there will be a "grieving process" to go through after it leaves...
I counted at least 17 tool holders at more than $100 each. This is a bargain.
That tube drive is pretty cool!
So sad to see Gill having to sell off his gear, I do hope he knows what he's doing. Good luck what ever your up too Gill
Nice lathe. I didn't know Monarch made conventional lathes, I've only ever seen their CNC machines.
Monarch made manual lathes for at least 105 years before introducing their CNC line in 1994. The original Monarch died in 2000 (along with most of the machine tool industry) but there are 4 spinoffs still running.
So..it appears my 1982 CVA lathe has a monarch 10ee tailstock of this era. Works fine.
Well if you ever find a CVA tailstock, I'd love to buy your Monarch 100EE one. (see above) ;-)
$6k is an incredibly good price for an EE with the tooling. Man I wish I had some extra zeros in my bank.
Man these tubes are huge, just huge, i just can't belive that they really used tubes do make variable drive for this lathe... :D
Those tubes are high power rectifier tubes to run the DC motor. They glow blue when powered on. But yes in that way they do make the power for the variable speed motor.
Oh ok so it is not a Triode or something for generating a variable voltage to spin the electric motor at differend speeds... ? Anyway it is big and beautyful :D
They're C16J (5665) tubes. Big thyratrons. Should be able to find a datasheet.
Love the dentist light idea..
It is my dream lathe!!! I wish to own one in my life time
Congrats on the quick sale!
Wish I had the money that lathe would be perfect for what I am doing. Someone will get a great machine for a great price.
$3500,where the hell was I?Great lathe,that Monarch!
Just finished watching video, next thing I see is sold. Thats what I get for working in my shop all day
That's a beautiful lathe. The vacuum tube power supply on the thing is beautiful. I wonder if those tubes fail whether you'd be able to get replacements.
most tubes are still available. they can be very expensive though....
Yeah, I took a brief look through eBay and prices range from ~$300 to $1600 each for the C16J's.
The c16j tube is very robust until you drop a screwdriver on it. Just one of the lessons I've learned in life. I now have 4 for backup.
There's actually a semiconductor replacement being made for the C16Js. See the Monarch forum on practicalmachinist.com for details.
I suggested that I'd buy some when he adds the light show so they look the same running. For now I've got 6 spare tubes...
Holy cow!! My deisil Fiat Doblo won't rev that high! ;) Hope it goes to a good home. Would have it in a heart beat but for the fact i am in the UK and my shed ( which is not even built yet ) will only have a wood floor.... Thinking about a mini lathe/mill combo later down the road. Want to focus on wood butchery first, getting into metal means cutting, grinding, welding, fab, lathe, mill, whole new set of tooling and set up. Maybe I can build another shed for that next year lol :)
I wish my 18C Monarch had some more spindle RPM's. 465 is WAO.
Great machine, at that price it's like giving it away. Cool shop dog!
I wish, right around the corner too
Ламповый! Удивительно! Я так полагаю что на лампах собран частотный преобразователь.
I would have dropped 6k for that setup in a heartbeat. That is a nice machine for a well known, originally precision, model.
I'll never look at a dentist light the same again.
That is a hell of price.
In ~ 2001 Seattle city maintenance put a Monarch that size in the parking lot for the scrap many to pick up for free. They replaced it with a new Chinese lathe. I posted that on rec.crafts.metalworking and a guy went there to get it, but was a day late. If you research this on google groups, I may be off by a year.
Love them but not the only 20 inch capible. But not that important to have steady rest for 20 inches
I doubt this makes it 24 hours before a SOLD sign is put on it...
Poor Gil is about to get a crap load of mail!
Adam you should get this 10EE . It will be great collection for the monarch you have now and the big monarch you going to have in future. Thats a neat lathe
If I had a bigger shop possibly but since I’m limited on space I’m saving it for a bigger lathe or grinder.
Used Navy stuff...they probably bought it with all the 'goodies', then used very little. Same here in N.California at the Mare island Navy Shipyard...lots of really BIG stuff ...
Yah, story of my life. I usually see these deals right after they are sold. Would be suprised if this wasn't sold within 15 minutes of posting.
wow! monarch still sells this model of lathe, brand new and practically identical to this one.
They are factory rebuilt lathes made from original castings. They don’t cast them anymore.
,,, good luck to the new owner . Have to wonder if it has the famous Monarch "flame hardened ways" ?
Pretty sure every Monarch lathe that left the factory starting after WWI has the hardened ways
,,, the bigger lathes usually have a plate that says just that .
The title is wrong. It should be "Lathe for Mike". Hello, my name is Mike.
LOL Mike!!
Wish I could afford it... Best of luck to Gil, I'm sure somebody will buy it
It’s 1st home was Lakehurst, NJ. That is where the Hindenburg met it’s demise.
Keith Rucker should grab that lathe.Then sell his 10EE restoration project.Just say'n.
I would buy it just for the tubes. That’s so cool!
I don't know why, but this video seemed really sad. It was almost like Gill was doing something that he really didn't want to do, but had no choice in the matter.
What a beautiful lathe.
Nice machine. Never thought id want one because of its design.
Does it have the metric translation gear? There would usually be a small chart low on the left end cover.
Awesome lathe.. i would have it myself but shipping accross the pond to li'l ol' England would be a tad expensive....
Oh, scrap that... i would want a metric one....
Sure a great lathe. Glad you showed it to us.
Sold already???
I wonder if the valves (tubes in the USA) are there to turn the AC into DC for the motor speed control?
Predecessor to SCR motor controls.
Square wave DC, yes
Rectifier tubes! Old school, yes, super dependable, YES!
Thanks for including a price. What's the weight on 10EEs
3500 lbs not counting tooling. It's a lot of cast iron in a small machine.
Bobby Vincent b
Vacuum tube drive? Cool until you have to find a replacement one. Doesn't anyone make these?
WCGwkf well worst case scenario retro fit a digital one.... Or electronic drive from Mitsubishi
Im 100% sure you can swap any old thing electronics in this swapped out to something modern.
Scissio Controls developed a solid state replacement for the large C16J Thyratron tubes. I'm running them in my 10ee, operation with the solid state units is indistinguishable from the analog tubes. www.scissiocontrols.com/store/c5/For_Monarch_10ee_Lathe.html
Russia makes great vacuum tubes. Seriously.
Wish I had a the money, I would love to have it. It would be a great addition to our shop.
Steve
Hope it finds another great home.
I would love this. Maybe one day.
Does anyone have a link to a demonstration of Electric Lead Screw Reverse?
Hate to see you sale it Gil, I know you have a lot of time in it, I saw the pictures of it when you got it, 6k is a smoking deal. Monarch would probably pay that for it. You know they refurbish them and ask 100k or more for them. I have a 1962 module drive and I wouldn't consider a penny less that 10k for it if it were for sale. Good luck with the move.
Hmm, I wonder who bought it.
Adam that would look good in your shop.
Can't beat vintage,, I've bought and restored 6 atlas lathes in the past 2 year's and even though it's not near the monarch quality I've seen the prices triple on mine,, even 60 years old still much better then the new lathes.
Nice lathe. I wish I had that much money to buy it.
Perhaps you want to add the following: Machine size, weight, condition of the bed ways.
Anyone interested in a 10ee can research that info. As said in video machine is in good condition.
The tubes were a big improvement over the units with the hydraulic variable speed drive of course those were old 40 years ago
Our last one had the fully functioning taper attachment and 6 position tail stock turret which is a work of art in itself
"hydraulic variable speed drive"
Amazing
The hydraulic drive was replaced quickly with a Ward Leonard motor generator driving a DC motor. My 10EE from 1942 still runs fine with it. The tube system is great, but the tubes are difficult to find if one goes bad.
Sorry to hear this. Good luck to you Gil!
6K - deal! Including shipping to NZ right...? 😁
Geoffrey Croker hey Geoffrey, when is the next video with the Land Rover???
tasoscorsair - hey, give me a break! I'm busy watching Abom! 💪 💪
Plus rigging, plus freight
What a beauty. Looks very well cared for. A wee bit short though.
Agreed, although I have a 10" with a 52" bed and I find that 95% of my work is done within 12" of the head stock. I absolutely love the size of the saddle. It is a monster. Best of machining to the fella or gal that purchases it!
For sure it looks really stable. I often have to center 6 + feet doing baler rollers so the length is a must for me.
I hear ya brother, I depends on what kind of work you do. I make stationary model steam engines. In our area long bed lathes are not really desirable and tend to be less expensive... He said he did not have a steady rest but really for that short bed who would need it. Perhaps a follow rest would be more desirable. Keep makin chips!