For sale Atlas 7B shaper

[sajo 58]

I have an Atlas 7B shaper for sale as is. I came across this unit in December, it cycles back and forth fine but I have never used it. It does look like it is in good solid shape except for the top adjusting handle is broke but it still travels up and down fine. I have deliberately joined this sight to offer it to members of this forum first.
I am asking $825.00 or possibly open to reasonable offer. You will have to cover shipping. I will box it up properly at my end and cover the wood cost.
Sajo58

 

[Jimbojones]

Substantial piece of metal and what they do...they do well. Unfortunately, they don't do a whole lot relative to a milling machine. Had the chance to grab one when I bought my lathe last year and the guy admitted he couldn't give it away (I think it was a hint for me to do that for him).

 

[Dabbler]

Sorry price and shipping too high for me. It does look like it is all there in not too bad shape.

Jimbo, you get the best deals! You did pick up the shaper, right?

- If I run across one that is really affordable, I'd love to restore it.

 

[Jimbojones]

Wait until you see the box of tooling I bought yesterday

 

[Earl Wong]

I have an Atlas 7B shaper for sale as is. I came across this unit in December, it cycles back and forth fine but I have never used it. It does look like it is in good solid shape except for the top adjusting handle is broke but it still travels up and down fine. I have deliberately joined this sight to offer it to members of this forum first.
I am asking $825.00 or possibly open to reasonable offer. You will have to cover shipping. I will box it up properly at my end and cover the wood cost.

Please contact me if its still available... [email protected]

 

[Tom O]

My Dads came with the original base.

 

[Earl Wong]

Nice, are you selling it?

 

[Tom O]

Sorry it's not for sale they get passed along to the next gen Grandad's lathe is in the garage Dads is downstairs with his shaper and my craftex 601 mill.

 

[Earl Wong]

Thought I'd give it a shot. I think its great these machines get handed down.. yours looks to be in great shape. There is a new one still in its crate that the U.S. military did not use that is available for $6500 U.S. - For some strange reason I still consider it. My addiction. I need therapy.

 

[Tom O]

for $6500.00 it should be gold plated! But you never know it could be fully tooled , extended table would be nice it's on the todo list.

 

[Peter P]

I have an Atlas 7B shaper for sale as is. I came across this unit in December, it cycles back and forth fine but I have never used it. It does look like it is in good solid shape except for the top adjusting handle is broke but it still travels up and down fine. I have deliberately joined this sight to offer it to members of this forum first.
I am asking $825.00 or possibly open to reasonable offer. You will have to cover shipping. I will box it up properly at my end and cover the wood cost.
Sajo58

HI! Sajo58!
Do you still have your metal shaper Atlas 7B for sale!
With respect Will you accept $700,00 for it,and crate it safely for transport!
you can answer me on my e-mail [email protected]

Thanks very much,

Pierre Perron from Coaticook QC

 

[Jimbojones]

Hope you get a response but basically person joined to write the ad, stuck around for 11 days then vanished.

 

[Dabbler]

there are lots of atlas shapers in California: about the same shipping cost as from Ontario.

 

[Earl Wong]

Ok finally got an Atlas Shaper from Ontario - Its an early version with serial number 101, the biggest differences in this early version compared to the 7B that most people have: does not have a table support, the ratchet housing is made from cast iron rather than Zamak, it uses 3 gib screws on the tool post slide rather than 4, there are other minor differences in parts, could not find a parts catalog for the early version, according to Clausing it was produced in 1937 to 1938 based on the serial number.
And so the rebuild begins with a complete teardown, will have to scrape a lot of surfaces and make a few parts

 

[Dabbler]

you lucky guy!

 

[PeterT]

Sweet, Earl! Be sure to keep the camera close to document the rebuild. I'll be particularly interested in the surfaces & scraping part. Did you say at some point you took a scraping workshop or course or something?

 

[Earl Wong]

Absolutely Peter, i really would like to take a Richard King scraping class but have only been introduced to scraping about 17 years ago when i spent a couple of months in Germany.

While im waiting for an Anderson scraper and some other supplies i ordered from AW Precision, the shaper has been completely disassembled, base and body painted, i decided to make 2 wiper covers for the ram slide ways. This early version was not built with them so i decided to make them as close to original as possible.

 

[Earl Wong]

I'll start posting the rebuild on the Active Projects forum and not continue it on this thread

 

[Andre23]

Like to find a metal shaper haves no problem paying 800$ to 900$

 

[Andre23]

I have an Atlas 7B shaper for sale as is. I came across this unit in December, it cycles back and forth fine but I have never used it. It does look like it is in good solid shape except for the top adjusting handle is broke but it still travels up and down fine. I have deliberately joined this sight to offer it to members of this forum first.
I am asking $825.00 or possibly open to reasonable offer. You will have to cover shipping. I will box it up properly at my end and cover the wood cost.
Sajo58

You still haves the metal shaper tanks haves a nice days