1984 South Bend 10" never turned on?

[stupoty]

I don't see the attraction, but I never bought into the mythical/magical 'US made' story. My poor little Taiwan made 1340GT is super accurate, does everything I need (and then some), and will outlast me which is all that matters to me. And it was cheaper than this one by a fair amount.

Someone above was right, in that this needs to go to some nostalgic collector who will appreciate it as something from the good ol' days.

I have old us made iron and i live in the uk

Was mainly because it was a good price and suited the bill though not just desire, i would have liked old uk iron too

I think most of the good quality tiwan lathes do look fairly solid to be honest and if i had the cash a brand new zero ware lathe would be very tempting.

Stu

 

[Buffalo21]

That's a nice collection, but eight grand? That's more than I spent on my entire shop*.

* That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

The one true fear a man has, is his wife sell his stuff off after he has passed, based on what he told her he paid for it.

 

[Jimsehr]

The one true fear a man has, is his wife sell his stuff off after he has passed, based on what he told her he paid for it.

I wonder what it’s price was new?

 

[Cooter Brown]

I wonder what it’s price was new?

This is the closest year I can find to 1984 with a price 1964 it was $941 so in 1984 it was probably around $1000 - 1300...

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/1617/20083.pdf

 

[martik777]

Schools here auction off their 9A South Bends for $450 - 800 every year or so. Market value - about 2500. Most of them have almost zero wear and will cut as true as this one. Usually the compound has some gouges from running into the chuck. Sadly I missed 3 of them last Sept.

 

[Cooter Brown]

They are close to retail value for it but no one is going to pay that much