Unfortunately my life has taken a huge left turn. I just found out I have lung cancer (and I'm the guy who has never taken a single puff on a cigarette in my life) and am getting ready to start my battle to kick its ass. Consequently my wife and I have decided to do something we have been kicking around for about 5 years and that is to downsize our life and live a lot simpler. We are going to buy another home much smaller than what we have so there will be no room for all the tools and toys I've collected for the last 50+ years. My problem is getting rid of all this stuff. I don't want to take the time to spend every weekend sitting in my driveway doing an endless garage sale. I am considering listing the major items on Craigslist and giving an inventory of everything to friends so they can kind of spread it around to their network of friends. I've also thought about looking into an auction service to just auction off everything left in the house after we get what we want out.
My question to you guys and gals here today is what you think my South Bend 9C lathe might be worth. I know you can't judge a machine by a picture but it will produce a pretty accurate part (more accurate than me). I completely took it apart, cleaned, repainted, rewicked, adjusted, checked,, and trued it up last year. Built a bench for it that I put my tool box in where I store all my machinist tools. The lathe has a almost new 4 jaw, a 3 jaw, a steady rest, live centers, dead centers, drill chuck, Aloris type QCTP, and a complete set of good change gears. WhenI got the lathe it had a box that had a bunch of the old lantern type tool holders and post with it along with an extra carriage and cross slide. I figured they where spare parts off another lathe they had in there shop that they kept for who knows what reason. From what I can tell this lathe came from an electric motor shop and it appeared they used it for turning the commutators down on motors?? The only chips I found in the lathe on tear down was brass/copper looking. I am going to put it up for sale without the tool box but will negotiate for the box and all the tools if wanted.
My question to you guys and gals here today is what you think my South Bend 9C lathe might be worth. I know you can't judge a machine by a picture but it will produce a pretty accurate part (more accurate than me). I completely took it apart, cleaned, repainted, rewicked, adjusted, checked,, and trued it up last year. Built a bench for it that I put my tool box in where I store all my machinist tools. The lathe has a almost new 4 jaw, a 3 jaw, a steady rest, live centers, dead centers, drill chuck, Aloris type QCTP, and a complete set of good change gears. WhenI got the lathe it had a box that had a bunch of the old lantern type tool holders and post with it along with an extra carriage and cross slide. I figured they where spare parts off another lathe they had in there shop that they kept for who knows what reason. From what I can tell this lathe came from an electric motor shop and it appeared they used it for turning the commutators down on motors?? The only chips I found in the lathe on tear down was brass/copper looking. I am going to put it up for sale without the tool box but will negotiate for the box and all the tools if wanted.
