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I'll be documenting the restoration of my 1969 Clausing 8530 here. It was listed as a drill press on a craigslist ad for an estate sale, with no price, just the one photo, and the sellers were unresponsive to my emails so i drove 50 miles to check out the situation in person. Turns out their grandfather was a metal fabricator and machinist who had collected a ton of stuff that they were now tasked with selling. I was surprised to see it hadn't sold the first day of the sale. It's got an ugly paint job, but looks to be in pretty decent shape overall. I didn't spend much time looking at it before other people started showing up and I got nervous someone else would buy it before me. They were asking $1000 so i threw out an offer of $800, they excepted and were quick to help me load it into the bed of my truck with an electric/hydraulic stacker. I didn't even bother trying to plug it in and see if it would spin, I just rolled the dice and took a gamble on it. I've attached the one photo that was on Craigslist, it's actually the only photo I have of it fully assembled. Then I got a few random photos as I was taking it apart to get it out of the truck and into my shed.
Welcome to my first thread here and thanks in advance for any help you can offer along the journey.
-Elgin
Welcome to my first thread here and thanks in advance for any help you can offer along the journey.
-Elgin
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