Fear not...I know the feeling all too well
There is a Walther that causes me to lose sleep at night
Fear not...I know the feeling all too well
There is a Walther that causes me to lose sleep at night
Sean
Just wait...It moves around from spot to spot depending on who is closing or moving or revamping....Everything will come out of BC for awhile then suddenly the NRC will offload skids of X
Craziest thing I've ever seen is a pair of functional 4 wheelers for under $100
but...
Like any auction I have seen a $400 king drop saw sell for $600
Sean
That's true but ya never know....??? You could luck out.Originally Posted by SeanMP
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The three screw tool on the left is called a steady rest. It's an absolute must have in order to be able to say you have put the "best possible" crown on a barrel....however it takes a fair bit of experience
The other could be a copy attachment...hard to tell
As Bob says the key is the bore size....if it's smallish take a pass
Sean
This is one of my lathes I rescued from being sold as scrap...1929 Southbend bench lathe. It didnt look like that when I first got it..lol. Unfortunately a walther barrel wont fit inside the spindle100_0729.jpg
For every mile of road, there's two miles of ditch
That is a beautiful little machine. And a great restoration job too.
As for it's price....
with all of the tooling the price is very fair. But do you need tooling or a lathe. Most of that tooling requires years of experience to use.
The picture at the top right is the quick change gearbox. Worth it's weight in gold.
You can buy the B2227 lathe from busy bee for about $1000 on sale. But you will be manually changing gears everytime you want to cut a thread. But I have one at work and Eric has one as well (His is clean...feel free to razz him over that) and they work very well
Sean
Shaddap! It has aluminum shavings all over the place. Mind-you the grinder has more crap built up around it than anything.
The one issue I have with it is the gear oil seeps out over time (and the side gears seem to wear quite a bit- fairly rough cut initially I imagine- alot of metal particulate inside the door).
I'd say I care- but I'd probably be lying...
Mine is a bit weepy too...especially out of the gear case cover.
Try loosening up the lash a bit on the intermediate gear. It may help, it may not...I agree they are pretty rough cut out of the box.
Sean
So this is some of the info I got...
Q.C. Gear Box
Center Distance 24
Bed Length 43
Spindle Nose 1-1/2 -8 x #3 mt
Spindle Bore 25/32
Tailstock/ standard
Turret
Drive Belt flat belt
Stand
Weighs approx 500lbs
So after I slept last night, I guess some sense came to me and I really can't afford to get it and I really do not have enough knowledge to run the thing. Like I said previously I could find the money but the smart thing to do would be to wait for better times and count my blessings, besides, there is always other ways to get the parts that I would need to make with a lathe from someone else....I don't know what the heck I was thinking...lol
Any way guys, thanks for the input and sorry to have waisted your time.
Fab
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