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I suck.

Oh no, I really suck. Properly like.
I got the Meuser lathe auctioned at UVic. First auction and I won, it's easy. Eight seconds remaining and $22.90 more than the next guy.
I went and looked at the lathe on Monday and it's a beaut. UVic bought it in 1971 (I have all the paperwork) for their science departments collaboration with the Triumph project, the cyclatron at UBC. As I understand it this was basically a one man shop. He passed away a few years back and the shop just fell idle. Now the university wants to convert the space to another purpose and so the lathe and the mill are going.
There is another shop there and they are doing Triumph stuff and and other UVic stuff. Chris, who handled the sale runs the show. He would have liked to have this lathe for his shop but it doesn't have a foot brake so it's not allowed, not safe. He showed me the lathe and gave me the background on it and then I got the shop tour. Two BP sort of mills, a Chineesium lathe, a clapped out Colchester and a small Haas lathe and mill. Very clean and very interesting looking projects.
So for pictures, here you go,

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This cart has seven boxes, two pails of oil and one of the steady rests. I picked this up today and will be picking the lathe up on Monday. As a rough inventory the boxes contain the following,
1 6" 3-Jaw chuck,
1 8" 3-Jaw chuck,
1 8" 4 jaw chuck,
1 14" 4 jaw/face plate chuck,
1 8" drive plate,
1 tool post for ball turning,
1 spare motor drive pulley,
4 chuck keys,
2 dead centers,
1 live center,
1 3 3/4" live cone center,
1 5" live cone center,
1 lantern toolpost with 5 tool holders,
1 drill chuck,
1 change gear (high speed ?),
6 drive dogs,
3 center drills,
9 boring bars,
2 insert tool holders,
6 Enco multifix tool holders,
6 pin wrenches,
1 solid tool post for large boring bars,
Oodles of original wrenches and hex keys,
2 steady rests (8" and 4" ?),
1 follow rest,
1 solid adjustable carriage stop,
1 each left and right micrometer carriage drive release dogs,
1 oiler,
and a few things I have no clue about and a bunch of high speed steel.
More to come when I get the lathe.

I suck, do I have a seconder ?
 
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