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Hello everybody, Being impatient I bit the bullet and ended up buying this 1994 Enco Lathe from an Estate Sale in California. Its remarkably similar to the Grizzly G4003 and the stand looks the same if not identical to the Grizzly Stand.
The funny thing is I wasn't so much sold on the machine ( One Owner for personal use. ) as I was on the amount of tooling that's comes with it. Literally box's and box''s... Ill put photos up next week. He used it to make or work on creating rail mounted firearms.
Its not the prettiest Lathe but it was well lubricated, covered and looked well cared for... It comes with not just tooling but Calipers, several Dial indicators, all the original packaged items, Way oil, Gear Oil, Grease and much much much more, Way to much to list, I think I saw an indexing head of sorts in the box's as well.
I had My Heart set on getting and restoring either a Logan 2557 or Logan 7500 which is why I was going to California in the first place... but how could I say no to a lathe for $1800.00 with boat loads of tooling.
I purposely didn't bring the work lift gate truck since i wanted a way out of buying a lathe on the spot and force a time gap to ponder my thoughts, I wasn't really expecting to come away this lathe.
I checked all I could running the lathe through its paces with my very limited knowledge and found nothing of issue with any components excluding a good amount of backlash in the cross slide. I did a bit of research and this model may be prone to wiring issues, I have some schooling in electrical so hopefully I can solve any issues that arise from that area.
I left a deposit and will pick it up next week and will report back with what all I got. If anyone can share pertinent info about available parts - guessing the G4003, any known issues or that I just managed to get the Enconomy Version of a HF lathe. After mentioning that, what is the lathe a knock off from, some Emco model maybe..?
I feel like I got a good deal and I'm hoping this will make a good beginner lathe todestroy learn on since it's ready to go and just needs a bit of clean up.. Other than my 9 X 20 this will be my first full functioning lathe. Have a great week people and thanks for looking.
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The funny thing is I wasn't so much sold on the machine ( One Owner for personal use. ) as I was on the amount of tooling that's comes with it. Literally box's and box''s... Ill put photos up next week. He used it to make or work on creating rail mounted firearms.
Its not the prettiest Lathe but it was well lubricated, covered and looked well cared for... It comes with not just tooling but Calipers, several Dial indicators, all the original packaged items, Way oil, Gear Oil, Grease and much much much more, Way to much to list, I think I saw an indexing head of sorts in the box's as well.
I had My Heart set on getting and restoring either a Logan 2557 or Logan 7500 which is why I was going to California in the first place... but how could I say no to a lathe for $1800.00 with boat loads of tooling.
I purposely didn't bring the work lift gate truck since i wanted a way out of buying a lathe on the spot and force a time gap to ponder my thoughts, I wasn't really expecting to come away this lathe.
I checked all I could running the lathe through its paces with my very limited knowledge and found nothing of issue with any components excluding a good amount of backlash in the cross slide. I did a bit of research and this model may be prone to wiring issues, I have some schooling in electrical so hopefully I can solve any issues that arise from that area.
I left a deposit and will pick it up next week and will report back with what all I got. If anyone can share pertinent info about available parts - guessing the G4003, any known issues or that I just managed to get the Enconomy Version of a HF lathe. After mentioning that, what is the lathe a knock off from, some Emco model maybe..?
I feel like I got a good deal and I'm hoping this will make a good beginner lathe to
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