I had purchased a basket case Logan 200 lathe about 2 years ago as part of my new metal working hobby, and planned on putting it back together and up and running once I retired. Well last Thursday, November 8, was my last working day and on Saturday morning I was looking at CL's and noticed a 820 Logan for sale about 3 hours east of me. I excitedly told my wife about it and the first thing she said “why aren't you calling him up about it”? Which I immediately did and 7 hours latter, and $875 less money, I was unloading and moving it to my 10'x14' wood shed workshop.
It had a decent amount of tooling (way more than my 200) and I just couldn't pass it up. So now the 820 is my first retirement project and I will document the cleanup/fixing/getting running process. I will not paint as I kind of like the patina of old arn and this lathe is really not in bad shape.
I still plan on getting the 200 put together/up and running and then CL's for some happy new lathe owner.
This is the CL's posting and lathe in back of my wife's CRV.
Heading home.
Unloaded.
While not related to the 820, I purchased these hammers for $55 on Sunday. There is a solid brass and copper which I really wanted.
It had a decent amount of tooling (way more than my 200) and I just couldn't pass it up. So now the 820 is my first retirement project and I will document the cleanup/fixing/getting running process. I will not paint as I kind of like the patina of old arn and this lathe is really not in bad shape.
I still plan on getting the 200 put together/up and running and then CL's for some happy new lathe owner.
This is the CL's posting and lathe in back of my wife's CRV.
Heading home.
Unloaded.
While not related to the 820, I purchased these hammers for $55 on Sunday. There is a solid brass and copper which I really wanted.
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