Tips/Techniques looking to identify lathe

[duthie]

Looking for some answers on this lathe if any in the forum knows more about the historie about this old timer it's has is for for over an year now he was asking $1500 I offered him $500 and he accepted my offer .
everything on Lathe works according to the seller but the lead screw won't move ahead when lever is engaged to move table ahead .
Take or leave it maybe as simple as an key broken worse case scenario broken gear but the $500 is worth it in scrap .
Thanks in advance Dutchie

 

[David]

Pictures show up very small so it's hard to make out details.
Can you try posting them again?

 

[mickeyf]

Yes, Clear closer up photos would help. But knowing maker and history is unlikely to help you diagnose or fix it. You probably just gotta get in there with you wrenches and start digging! And perhaps photographing stages of the disassembly to aid in the reassembly.

 

[Darren]

The beast of Syracuse- Mulliner Enlund lathe

This is the story of Millicent the metal lathe, and how I came to be her current caretaker. My name is James, and for well over a decade I've been an avid collector of Porter Cable products,;specifically the tools, stationary and portable, that the company made from 1906 to 1960 when they became...

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Porter Cable Toolroom & Conventional Lathes

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This should get you started

 

[duthie]

Pictures show up very small so it's hard to make out details.
Can you try posting them again?

Sorry this all the pictures I have this is the ones the seller send through out Facebook Market place so I buy it or leave it is my question with this trade war going on maybe price of steel is going up ?? I am planning to make the trip to see it it's about 2.5 hours east off Cornwall Ontario Canada now the weather is better if I take home make better pictures ,But what is your honest opinion take it or leave it .

 

[David]

Sorry this all the pictures I have this is the ones the seller send through out Facebook Market place so I buy it or leave it is my question with this trade war going on maybe price of steel is going up ?? I am planning to make the trip to see it it's about 2.5 hours east off Cornwall Ontario Canada now the weather is better if I take home make better pictures ,But what is your honest opinion take it or leave it .

Can you link to the Marketplace listing?

 

[Bandit]

Guess it depends on whether you already have a lathe or not and really, really want one. If it is powered by a motor that you can power, the head stock turns o.k. and the carrage will move by hand, and it does have a tail stock, and a tool post. No power feed to the carrage is not the end of the world, depending on what you may want to do. It likely has some wear, it has been used and it has been around for a while. It just could be the jewel you are looking for. It is not a ball of rust, and not being asked for its weight in gold.
There is some other info in some posts on the site about checking a lathe and what to look for.
Go look at it, if you start getting warm fuzzy feeling, can’t keep your hands off it, get a funny smile on your face, buy it and stick around, we got more “ help” if there’s anything else you want, need, have to have!
Hard to say where the trade war is going.