Dean Smith and grace?

Sandrion · Mar 27, 2018

Just recently bought a Dean Smith and Grace, sight unseen, for $100. I know nothing about it specifically, as the deal was made over the phone. What have I gotten myself into, what should I look for specifically, if anything, and most of all what info do you guys need to help me figure out what exactly it is I have bought!

Pictures coming soon.

thermite · Mar 27, 2018

Sandrion said:
Just recently bought a Dean Smith and Grace, sight unseen, for $100. I know nothing about it specifically, as the deal was made over the phone. What have I gotten myself into, what should I look for specifically, if anything, and most of all what info do you guys need to help me figure out what exactly it is I have bought!

Pictures coming soon.

Model number or at least rough swing and c-to-c distance would be a help.

DS&G (UK, originally) became part of Monarch Machine Tool. They HAD made lots of high-grade "engine", even toolroom-grade conventional manual lathes and then - concurrent with Monarch's ownership - went over to DS&G designed, MTW branded NC controlled slant-bed production lathes, so a seriously big difference in whatcha got and what it is of any use for is possible!

Mind . .at a hundred bucks, I'd ha' probbaly rolled the dice, too. Partout or scrap value, etc.

PS: Older, conventonal, DS&G are usally "homed" in the Monarch forum. On merit. Good lathes, they were.

Later ones, its common ownership!

Sandrion · Mar 28, 2018

Thanks for the insight!
Should I ask for this to me moved to the Monarch sub-forum?

I have been told its an older lathe, conventional styling. I will take pictures when I see it and post them up.

thermite · Mar 28, 2018

Sandrion said:
Thanks for the insight!
Should I ask for this to me moved to the Monarch sub-forum?

Not yet enough content here to bother an admin.

Just start a new thread in the Monarch forum when you DO have content, then come back to this thread and post the PM 'link' to the new one.

sable · Mar 28, 2018

As far as I know DSG never made a small lightweight lathe ,so as long as it is not too much trouble to get it to the scrapyard you can't go wrong.

Mark Rand · Mar 28, 2018

Yes they did. We had a couple that barely topped 8 tons...

thermite · Mar 28, 2018

Mark Rand said:
Yes they did. We had a couple that barely topped 8 tons...

Some were far lighter. But even so, DS&G were "heavily built medium" class, and impressively precise, even at their biggest. In the grand scheme of lathes, globally, anyway.

Ain't no steenkin' Leeb-Lawned "Regal" nor piddly-arse allergic-to-Iron South-Bent, here.

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