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That's a distant project. Plus my father in law is a retired paint and body man, and he has plans of building a paint room soon. I will just use his.

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Reeltor said:
Now, before you go and get a third lathe, I think you need a big shaper, most any 16"-36" weighing in at two tons or more would be suitable. I assume that you have at least one mill to keep your lathes company, yes, a shaper definitely before a third lathe. :D
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I have 2 lathes, 4 mills, 5 shapers, 2 planers, 2 vertical bandsaws and a bunch of other smaller items. I finally had to face the facts and start getting rid of some stuff. I already moved one shaper, another to go up for sale soon and another after it's repaired and running. One of the mills will be for sale soon. Then once the repair work is done on some of the other tools a planer and bandsaw will also find new homes. Just got tired of not having room in the shop to do anything.
 
cjtoombs said:
I have 2 lathes, 4 mills, 5 shapers, 2 planers, 2 vertical bandsaws and a bunch of other smaller items. I finally had to face the facts and start getting rid of some stuff. I already moved one shaper, another to go up for sale soon and another after it's repaired and running. One of the mills will be for sale soon. Then once the repair work is done on some of the other tools a planer and bandsaw will also find new homes. Just got tired of not having room in the shop to do anything.
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The fallacy in that thinking is that one is tempted to fill the empty space! "The machinery expands to fill the available space"
 
Nope you need at least 5 don't forget the Hardinage turret LATHE and the 20" gap bed with the tracer attachments .
 
Don't forget the 30" American High Duty lathe from 1919 from a RR shop; I did not!
 
One can never have too many machine tools , Everyone should have a historical hero, to whom one should look up to My hero was the old Glasgow industrialist Sir William Beardmore , who loved more machines and lovely large factories, I have a big lathe I do not use often but it is always there, and two intermediate lathes , And a small lathe which I am refurbishing at the moment , My daughter really likes it as well , so I guess that is a golden seal of approval.
 
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Try working out of a 16'x 12' workshop, no room for new machines, all my tools & machines are on wheels, to get a bit of working space. lol
 
core-oil said:
One can never have too many machine tools , Everyone should have a historical hero, to whom one should look up to My hero was the old Glasgow industrialist Sir William Beardmore , who loved more machines and lovely large factories, I have a big lathe I do not use often but it is always there, and two intermediate lathes , And a small lathe which I am refurbishing at the moment , My daughter really likes it as well , so I guess that is a golden seal of approval.
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I quite agree! Personal heroes; one of mine is Samuel Smiles, the mid 1800s industrial biographer in Britain; I have a set of his biographies (4 Volumes). So many industrial heroes between those covers!
 
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