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Ok Friendly Machinist Folks-
I have barely been keeping bottled up for a whole frickin week, that by sheer luck, by the fortune of good people in the world, one eye on Craigslist, and sheer desperation on my part, I have finagled an almost pristine, fully loaded with tooling, 1965 4 foot floor model Heavy Ten! And I am picking it up tomorrow!
I never dreamt I would have EVER been able to acquire such a beautiful machine as this. He included all his accessories- center and follow rests, really nice chucks, turret tailstock!, QCTP, full set of SB Collets, all kinds of cutters and indexable tools, I haven't even gone through yet.
I am only actually putting out a few hundred dollars, my old beater 10L (which I love, but can't miss this this opportunity!), some other small machines I don't want, and some future labor/favors.
I have barely slept this week.
I will surely post pictures of the move, although I it will be pretty straightforward.
The guy I am buying it from is a great guy, and I live pretty close to him, so I told him he can come use it any time. I really hope he does.
I hope you guys can help me learn to take proper care of a truly lovely machine. I will be asking!
Let's see if I can successfully attach pics here, from when I went back to measure it for the move..
HOLY CRAP!!
Bernie
The thing is barely dirty! Turret tailstock too! Mint!
Hand scrape marks on the compound and crosslide!!
Cool micrometer stop mount I asked about here last week- I hadn't seen one before:
I have barely been keeping bottled up for a whole frickin week, that by sheer luck, by the fortune of good people in the world, one eye on Craigslist, and sheer desperation on my part, I have finagled an almost pristine, fully loaded with tooling, 1965 4 foot floor model Heavy Ten! And I am picking it up tomorrow!
I never dreamt I would have EVER been able to acquire such a beautiful machine as this. He included all his accessories- center and follow rests, really nice chucks, turret tailstock!, QCTP, full set of SB Collets, all kinds of cutters and indexable tools, I haven't even gone through yet.
I am only actually putting out a few hundred dollars, my old beater 10L (which I love, but can't miss this this opportunity!), some other small machines I don't want, and some future labor/favors.
I have barely slept this week.
I will surely post pictures of the move, although I it will be pretty straightforward.
The guy I am buying it from is a great guy, and I live pretty close to him, so I told him he can come use it any time. I really hope he does.
I hope you guys can help me learn to take proper care of a truly lovely machine. I will be asking!
Let's see if I can successfully attach pics here, from when I went back to measure it for the move..
HOLY CRAP!!
Bernie
The thing is barely dirty! Turret tailstock too! Mint!
Hand scrape marks on the compound and crosslide!!
Cool micrometer stop mount I asked about here last week- I hadn't seen one before:
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