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Wtb schaublin 135 or 150
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TorontoBuilder
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location? what distance are you willing to ship it from?
I was kind of curious about overseas shipping. Not to detract from your post but can you throw some of the price + weight ballpark $ figures? At least you are on the right end of Canada coming off the boat. It would be another additive journey on top to the prairies.
TorontoBuilder
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Back when I'd been considering buying a chipmaster in the UK I got very reasonable quotes to ship from London to Montreal, well under $1000 for two lathes in fact.
However, crating, transport and storage of the lathes while trying to organize the logistics of shipping more than one used lathe became untenable.
There were only about 3500 of these lathes produced, but I'd say prospects are fair for finding a lathe in the US rust belt or eastern Canada but you may not have a lot of choice condition wise, how bad is the one you're aware of?
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Tom Kitta
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They do sell in you area:
I expect today one in good condition would be around 20,000 CAD+
Here are listings for sale (including BC) around the world:
It will be interesting to see what this goes for considering what they wanted for the ebay one earlier this year.
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I expect today one in good condition would be around 20,000 CAD+
Here are listings for sale (including BC) around the world:
They do sell in you area:
It will be interesting to see what this goes for considering what they wanted for the ebay one earlier this year.
Browse items for sale - Open bidding
Search for federal government surplus using keywords, location, category and posting/closing date
I expect today one in good condition would be around 20,000 CAD+
Here are listings for sale (including BC) around the world:
wowowowow that's a big number. surprising to me since the only two big schaublins I've seen on kijiji were listed for what I thought were not insane prices and both took months to sell (a 160 in quebec for 7500$ in feb of 2024 and a 135 in ontario for 5000$ in 2023)...
I guess the kicker is that you're not only looking for a big schaublin in Canada (very rare),, you're looking for one in good condition... it's so rare to find machine tools here that don't look like they were used by hammer-wielding apes or stored in the basement of the Titanic