4X Standard Modern lathes -- Peterborough, ON

[trlvn]

@Rauce posted about these in another thread but I thought there might be enough interest to separate.

The school board in the Peterborough area has 4 lathes up for auction, ending May 3, 2022. Three appear to be 11X20 and one looks to be 12X30:

'Yellow'

Metal Lathe - Yellow - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Red'

Metal Lathe - Red - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Blue'

Metal Lathe - Blue - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Green' 12X30

Metal Lathe - Green - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

Apparently these are all 208V 3 phase machines so excellent candidates for variable speed via a VFD.

Unfortunately, there is NO preview available.

These listings were only posted a few days ago and already there have been 170+ visits to the listing pages. Maybe there will be a surprise but I would not expect these to go cheap.

Craig

 

[Brent H]

What sucks @trlvn is that they have a mixed bag of tooling/attachments under them. The yellow one has a dividing head and the green one looks to have the Uber rare steady and follow rest, but may also have parts and pieces for the other lathes
I could see a re-seller nabbing them all as a one time lot. Could be 4 well kitted lathes there.

 

[Brent H]

Looks like the taper attachment is under the green one as well

 

[Blouin55]

@Rauce posted about these in another thread but I thought there might be enough interest to separate.

The school board in the Peterborough area has 4 lathes up for auction, ending May 3, 2022. Three appear to be 11X20 and one looks to be 12X30:

'Yellow'

Metal Lathe - Yellow - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Red'

Metal Lathe - Red - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Blue'

Metal Lathe - Blue - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

'Green' 12X30

Metal Lathe - Green - govdeals.com

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

www.govdeals.ca

Apparently these are all 208V 3 phase machines so excellent candidates for variable speed via a VFD.

Unfortunately, there is NO preview available.

These listings were only posted a few days ago and already there have been 170+ visits to the listing pages. Maybe there will be a surprise but I would not expect these to go cheap.

Craig

 

[Blouin55]

Too bab, if it was closer i had to bit on, they seem to be in good shape.

 

[trlvn]

What is the through hole size on the 11 inch Standard Moderns?

Craig

 

[Brent H]

1-3/8” I Believe.

 

[Brent H]

They have a D1-4 spindle. I will see if I can upload the manual.

 

[Brent H]

Here is the manual - I will check a couple other ones I have as well and see if there are any better spec's included

 

[trlvn]

Final selling prices, HST and Buyers Premium included:

Yellow - $2,345

Red - $1,928

Blue - $1,955

Green - $1,809

All those are on the low end of what I expected although with few pictures and no opportunity for a preview, bidding more would have been a heck of a gamble. Green's price seems especially low given that it was the only 12X30 machine and the pictures show some accessories. If Yellow really included a (functional?) dividing head, that would account for the premium compared to the others.

BTW, it appears that a different bidder won each of the lots. Did any members here get involved?

I'm now having a bit of 'non-bidders remorse' but having Covid and making a 340 km round trip to wrestle a new machine home just wasn't in the cards.

Craig

 

[Brent H]

@trlvn : I think that given the sort of "mystery box" status of the lathes that they went for a "fair" price. So hard to tell from the pictures.

The 12" showed what it had to offer with accessories - it also seemed to have been "picked over" with respect to all the missing knobs, the lead screw looked a bit sketchy from the pics and - if you take the cast iron base into account - may be pretty old compared to the other ones. You could, however, sell the accessories for what the lathe costs to the right buyer.

The Red and Blue ones - hard to say - what was in the cabinets? Could have been a gold mine or the accessories for the red were joined in with the blue and the red buyer got screwed or vise versa - lots to gamble

Yellow one - yep, if the dividing head was complete and functional! - but did anything else come with it? can't use the dividing head easily on the lathe....LOL