Cowichan Valley Vancouver Island - Craftex B2229 Combination Mill & Lathe $2200.00

[TorontoBuilder]

Do you have limited space and budget, live on Vancouver Island and want some machinery? This may be the deal for you. It looks clean and cared for, as does the shop. Just look at that floor, very clean. It has igaging scales and they may work too.

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[PaulL]

Do you have limited space and budget, live on Vancouver Island and want some machinery? This may be the deal for you. It looks clean and cared for, as does the shop. Just look at that floor, very clean. It has igaging scales and they may work too.

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Ok, anyone up for a short road trip? My shop buddy wants it, but he's on the road this week and foolishly took the keys to his pickup.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Ok, anyone up for a short road trip? My shop buddy wants it, but he's on the road this week and foolishly took the keys to his pickup.

I hope you find someone to help you score this deal for your buddy

 

[6.5 Fan]

Ok, anyone up for a short road trip?

Always ready for a road trip. Unfortunately it's a real long road trip just to get out there.

 

[PaulL]

Trip report time! This one followed me home.
My buddy Mark has been looking for one of these for a while. And as look would have it he was out of town when this listing came up.
I had a few gracious offers to drive up and fetch it, and @YotaBota won the prize by having a schedule that intersected both mine and the seller's.
Met up on just this side of the Malahat, where I met @YotaBota for the first time in a Home Depot parking lot where I left my less-than-useful (for this) vehicle.
An hour or so later we met the seller, a friendly elderly gentleman who is into building model steam engines. Really beautiful work, though I didn't ask permission to take or post photos.
He did the ones we saw on the machine we picked up. He's not getting out of it though, having just upgraded to the CX701 lathe and CX601 mill to replace it. He already has a few mods that I'll be tackling for my CX601, as well as a nice hand-crank chain drive for the CX601 column mill.
The combination lathe/mill has a slew of handy improvements and tooling that he's made up for it including a spindle hand-crank, extension/remote belt-tensioning lever to overcome an awkward original placement, drill chucks, end mill holders, etc, that fit this machine but not his new one. I'm very happy with the price paid and the machine that price purchased.
So we pulled it apart into its three parts and got it loaded up in the back of Mike's truck using an engine hoist:

And then drove back (picking up my car on the way back...). Here she is as we play stupid games and somehow avoid winning stupid prizes - I didn't have quite enough height under my garage door for the gantry to give a clean lift and wound up needing to get the truck out from underneat while it was still *just* dragging. Moments of anxiety, but no terror. Mike is methodical mover.

And here it is, stacked back up properly, with Mike swearing at the split cotters that hold the head down. I solved the puzzle the next evening. She's now settled into her temporary home until my friend gets the space for her sorted out in his shop.

Thanks again Mike for making this possible!
Paul

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Trip report time! This one followed me home.
My buddy Mark has been looking for one of these for a while. And as look would have it he was out of town when this listing came up.
I had a few gracious offers to drive up and fetch it, and @YotaBota won the prize by having a schedule that intersected both mine and the seller's.
Met up on just this side of the Malahat, where I met @YotaBota for the first time in a Home Depot parking lot where I left my less-than-useful (for this) vehicle.
An hour or so later we met the seller, a friendly elderly gentleman who is into building model steam engines. Really beautiful work, though I didn't ask permission to take or post photos.
He did the ones we saw on the machine we picked up. He's not getting out of it though, having just upgraded to the CX701 lathe and CX601 mill to replace it. He already has a few mods that I'll be tackling for my CX601, as well as a nice hand-crank chain drive for the CX601 column mill.
The combination lathe/mill has a slew of handy improvements and tooling that he's made up for it including a spindle hand-crank, extension/remote belt-tensioning lever to overcome an awkward original placement, drill chucks, end mill holders, etc, that fit this machine but not his new one. I'm very happy with the price paid and the machine that price purchased.
So we pulled it apart into its three parts and got it loaded up in the back of Mike's truck using an engine hoist:

And then drove back (picking up my car on the way back...). Here she is as we play stupid games and somehow avoid winning stupid prizes - I didn't have quite enough height under my garage door for the gantry to give a clean lift and wound up needing to get the truck out from underneat while it was still *just* dragging. Moments of anxiety, but no terror. Mike is methodical mover.
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And here it is, stacked back up properly, with Mike swearing at the split cotters that hold the head down. I solved the puzzle the next evening. She's now settled into her temporary home until my friend gets the space for her sorted out in his shop.
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Thanks again Mike for making this possible!
Paul

Awesome. I'm happy you got this.

Was the gentleman who sold it named powell by any chance?

 

[PaulL]

Awesome. I'm happy you got this.

Was the gentleman who sold it named powell by any chance?

Not as a first name. Don't know his surname.

 

[DavidR8]

I have a set of 1/2” strap clamps if your brother is interested @PaulL

 

[PaulL]

I have a set of 1/2” strap clamps if your brother is interested @PaulL

Let me measure the t-slots. The answer is almost certainly yes!

 

[YotaBota]

Moments of anxiety, but no terror

I had the "Sketchy Sh_t" song in my head at one point but we gotta away with it. LOL

It was a good afternoon, your very welcome.

I would like to have got the make and model of the two steam engines he built. The beam engine is a thing of beauty.