Great starter lathe lol. $250.00

[Chip Maker]

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[Susquatch]

I think it's beautiful! Belongs on display in the living room!

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I think it's beautiful! Belongs in display in the living room!

In the kitchen, so you can use it to peel potatoes.

 

[Mcgyver]

There the "its better than no lathe" argument ...... which i'd say is false ..... at least with no lathe you still have your machining hopes and dreams intact.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

But If you're deep in the outback, and the starter motor on your ute is pooched, and you need to turn the commutator to get back home.........this thing is just the ticket.

(It IS an armature lathe isn't it?)

 

[YYCHM]

Vintage Super Adept Mini Lathe, Scugog, ON

 

[Mcgyver]

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(It IS an armature lathe isn't it?)

according to the ad on Tony's site, its an ordinary lathe with many other uses.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Ah, never though to check there.

 

[Dabbler]

it's so cute!

 

[Susquatch]

Just needs a 3ph 5hp motor, a VFD, a 10 axis DRO, and an ELS!i

 

[trevj]

I have a few feet of shelf space of old Model Engineer magazines, some as old as the late 1800's.

The magazines were rife with similar machines, and it certainly is not hard to understand the excitement that the Myford ML and Super 7 series lathes would have stirred up for those that could afford them!

I think everyone should get to know some of those old lathes, if only to see how really really good they have it compared to what was available at times in the past!

 

[Former Member]

But If you're deep in the outback, and the starter motor on your ute is pooched, and you need to turn the commutator to get back home.........this thing is just the ticket.

(It IS an armature lathe isn't it?)

Thats what a drill is for......

 

[Susquatch]

I think everyone should get to know some of those old lathes, if only to see how really really good they have it compared to what was available at times in the past!

I agree in many ways. My first lathe was an old girl born in mid 1880's. She was crude but a great teacher .. She taught me things a modern lathe would not have been able to. As you say, I can really appreciate what the differences are today.

 

[Matt-Aburg]

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I think it's beautiful! Belongs on display in the living room!

ok for this, but not a printer ???

 

[Susquatch]

ok for this, but not a printer ???

Ya, one is cute, and the other is a big box of ugliness.

We have a beautiful antique sewing machine in the living room now. This cute little baby would fit right beside it. His and hers from the past.

Printer belongs in the barn.