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Thanks everyone for your posts. I decided against trying to fix the bed. Life is too short to be wasting hours not knowing what I'm doing, lol.
Life is good! I do not want to go though it alone. I thought I would share the good things in life with you folks. You can run any lathe you want to. I’m not going to stop you. Please enjoy the toys in your shop and I will mine.I think we all got your opinion the first time, but since no one responded, you had to hit harder. Its great that you are in such a position in life. Do you have anything positive to say? Anything even relevant to the topic? Or you just like poking jabs at others that are not up to your standards?
Sorry, but Bob already talked me into just selling the bed off, lol.
I’m sorry to say, but if you offered the 9A and or 9C to me for free, I would not take them. I have been around the block. Been there and done that kinda thing. I no longer want any frustrations that go along with lathes that have idiosyncrasies. If I had limited space and short on time. I would get the best newer working lathe with bells and whistles and be done with it. Use it and enjoy it. And not play around with repairing anything about it to maybe make it work. I have 10 generations of hobby shop projects and only one lifetime to do it in. Maybe some folks have it in their cards to do this sort of lathe entertainment, I do not. Sorry, my three cents…Dave.
Interesting, MikeH. That's a lot of money for an SB 13. But a nice tight SB 13 is worth more than $2500. I just can't see paying that much on a lathe that probably had an initial purchase price of much less (even possibly free). I knew a guy who was offered 4 nice South Bend's for the price of rigging. Thing is, his dad was a rigger, so he got them essentially for free. He had no place to put them, so he donated them to the university, installation included. Turns out they were all fine. From my experience with Chinese import 14x40's at TechShop, the clapped out South Bend's were less expensive and had less breakdown problems. I'm glad it was worth it.
Richard has a class or classes coming to the bay area in the next few months. Contact Richard for details. The classes can fill up very quickly once they are announced. Get on the list.Man, I would love to have my Weiler reground. There are a few options in the bay area.... but for that price, I would hold out for the next Richard King class.