Is anyone aware of any parts sources for 8520 parts? Of course I called Clausing to see if there was a chance that they had any of the parts that I need, and as expected, most everything is no longer available.
I've been looking for the "right" 8520 to come along for about 10 years now, and I finally found one but there's a catch. It's missing a couple of parts. A friend of mine turned me on to an estate of an elderly retired toolmaker who had recently passed away, and the family was selling off his possessions. In the basement, I found a disassembled absolutely mint 8520. The owner of it had bought it new in 1966, used it once or twice, then took it apart to move it into the basement of a new house that he had moved to over 20 years ago. He never re-assembled it, and it has been sitting like that ever since. It was broken down into 5 pieces, and all of the small parts were meticulously wrapped in wax paper, covered in what I believe to be Vaseline. The parts were in to separate cardboard boxes. I dug through the boxes, and to the best of my ability determined that there were a couple of pieces missing. The table lead screw, one of the housings that fits on the end of the table under the dial and handle, and the bronze nut for the missing lead screw.
There was also a brand new, in the box, LW Chuck brand dividing head, a 6" Yuasa rotary table, an original 4" Clausing swivel base vise, tons of tooling, including 2 complete sets of Hardinge brand MT2 collets, and all of the original manuals and sales paperwork for everything, including the Clausing factory test sheet with accuracy results on it.
The family offered me everything for 1200 bucks. They had researched the value of the mill on Ebay, but gave it to me with the "discount" price because of the missing parts. I brought it all home and packed it away in my storage locker until I can locate the missing parts. Well after doing some internet searching for the missing items, I'm about just as depressed as I was happy when I bought it. It seems like my only option is to watch Ebay like a hawk until the parts show up, one at a time, over probably what will take years. So essentially,I'm taking a shot here and checking to see if anyone knows at least a starting point for me to locate some of this stuff. Clausing has the bronze nut in stock (326.00), but I think I might be screwed on finding the other stuff unless someone parts out a machine on Ebay.
I know you guys love pictures, but I'm probably not gonna take any until I put it together, whenever. Thanks in advance to anyone who can nudge me in the right direction.
I've been looking for the "right" 8520 to come along for about 10 years now, and I finally found one but there's a catch. It's missing a couple of parts. A friend of mine turned me on to an estate of an elderly retired toolmaker who had recently passed away, and the family was selling off his possessions. In the basement, I found a disassembled absolutely mint 8520. The owner of it had bought it new in 1966, used it once or twice, then took it apart to move it into the basement of a new house that he had moved to over 20 years ago. He never re-assembled it, and it has been sitting like that ever since. It was broken down into 5 pieces, and all of the small parts were meticulously wrapped in wax paper, covered in what I believe to be Vaseline. The parts were in to separate cardboard boxes. I dug through the boxes, and to the best of my ability determined that there were a couple of pieces missing. The table lead screw, one of the housings that fits on the end of the table under the dial and handle, and the bronze nut for the missing lead screw.
There was also a brand new, in the box, LW Chuck brand dividing head, a 6" Yuasa rotary table, an original 4" Clausing swivel base vise, tons of tooling, including 2 complete sets of Hardinge brand MT2 collets, and all of the original manuals and sales paperwork for everything, including the Clausing factory test sheet with accuracy results on it.
The family offered me everything for 1200 bucks. They had researched the value of the mill on Ebay, but gave it to me with the "discount" price because of the missing parts. I brought it all home and packed it away in my storage locker until I can locate the missing parts. Well after doing some internet searching for the missing items, I'm about just as depressed as I was happy when I bought it. It seems like my only option is to watch Ebay like a hawk until the parts show up, one at a time, over probably what will take years. So essentially,I'm taking a shot here and checking to see if anyone knows at least a starting point for me to locate some of this stuff. Clausing has the bronze nut in stock (326.00), but I think I might be screwed on finding the other stuff unless someone parts out a machine on Ebay.
I know you guys love pictures, but I'm probably not gonna take any until I put it together, whenever. Thanks in advance to anyone who can nudge me in the right direction.