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Schaublin 160.....

M

Mcgyver

Ultra Member
a bargoon at $60,000 cnd. Many would say the nicest lathe ever made and I wouldn't disagree. Well tooled to boot. They are so rare I'd have expected a higher price on it. I wouldn't normaly think to post a foriegn listing but you just don't see these everyday.

I'd buy it in a heart beat.....if I had the money, space and it was domestic :D. Its in Dakota for you western guys.

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Schaublin 160 Lathe. Very very good condition. Comes with tooling and original books. Theres only 200 made of these model. Yes it is overpriced but its worth every penny. I will ad some better pictures down the road. Reason for selling is that...
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Yeah, I missed a Schaublin 150 by a couple hundred bucks on Crown assets a while ago.

The last one I saw for sale was looking for around $70000. It was very low hours, and very well tooled up!

Dunno whatthe number of 160's vs. the 150's were ever shipped to North America. Don, the owner of PracticalMachinist, figured maybe a dozen 150's made it to this side of the waters, and I worked with one of them.
Gotta say, I have bought Lottery tickets over things that interested me less! :)
 
It's hard for me to imagine what it must be like to have enough cash to consider buying something like that. I think when people do have that level of wealth, they have no interest in lathes.
 
My only exposure to him confined to the website, but I get a different vibe. Obviously he is not short on cash. He could have bought a cottage or a boat or a bad relationship & I wouldn't give it a second glance. Buying those machines in clunker condition would add up to a healthy sum overtime. But I doubt he is a cheque writing collector. Most/all the machines have been stripped down & rebuilt. To what degree isn't fully detailed in all cases. But just knowing the age & likely expectation most all would have been working machines in prior shops their past life means he would have to have developed the skills & know his way around all that that necessitates, not to mention dedicating time & effort. The paint & cosmetics exceeds the machines when new, tells me his heart is bringing them back to glory. A noble pursuit IMO. There is indication of self educated scraping competency & a handful of projects above the P50 of most model engineers, so at least they are not behind a glass case. OK, lets get back to rusting sh*t in an open field with missing tailstocks haha.
 
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