Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Largest Manufacturing Technology Community on the Web
Stay Connected:
At Least They Taped off the Knobs...
- Thread starter tobnpr
- Start date
- Replies 23
- Views 6,917
Mebfab
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2003
- Location
- Mebane North Carolina USA
We have been laughing about that one in the classifieds. He has it on ebay also. $3k!!!!!
Cal Haines
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2002
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
Oh my! I've seen a lot of sketchy paint jobs on lathes before, but I think this is the first time that they painted the ways . . . and the chuck! YIKES!
And I see that they have the condition listed as "Excellent". What a hoot!
Cal
And I see that they have the condition listed as "Excellent". What a hoot!
Cal
Cal Haines
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2002
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
In case this turns up here later, it's s/n 13693, built 8-1942.
Cal
Cal
Pete Deal
Titanium
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2007
- Location
- Morgantown, WV
The question is-how many months did it sit outside before they painted it?
RC Mech
Stainless
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2014
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
They gave the diesel engine in the background the same treatment. 
That'll stop them earl leaks!
That'll stop them earl leaks!Monarchist
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Location
- Sol, Terra
"If only".. it had been painted that "overall" way on THAT DATE.. stored, unused, all the years since, then...
But what with the starter "reset" button no longer evident, and a few other minor tattle-tales, we have reason to suspect otherwise, so..
Monarchist
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Location
- Sol, Terra
They gave the diesel engine in the background the same treatment.
"earl" leeks - and the remains of former 'loominum pistons carried-with, may be where they GOT that "grey paint".
rons
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2009
- Location
- California, USA
The model ID nameplate looks pretty.
I learned about full body paint when I watched Goldfinger the first time. No paint at the base of the spine allows the skin to breath.
I learned about full body paint when I watched Goldfinger the first time. No paint at the base of the spine allows the skin to breath.
Monarchist
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Location
- Sol, Terra
Guess this 10EE is grateful the spray-gun - or was it a string-mop? - didn't fit under the bottom of the bed casting, then?
I'm not sure I'd admit to learning much from watching Goldfinger.. "first time" - given the implication there was a second and subsequent time...
I mean, I was dumbfounded when I saw the ad...in about 1/2 second, it registered....the steel strapping was painted????!!!!
I'd really like to know the backstory, I just can't believe either an owner or a reseller would actually be dumb enough to do that. Maybe the guy cleaning the shop that the boss told to "clean up and paint that machine over there!"?
Thought about calling on it to find out, but figure he's probably tired of explaining it by now.
I'd really like to know the backstory, I just can't believe either an owner or a reseller would actually be dumb enough to do that. Maybe the guy cleaning the shop that the boss told to "clean up and paint that machine over there!"?
Thought about calling on it to find out, but figure he's probably tired of explaining it by now.
wawoodman
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2006
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Earl Scheib $29.95 special!
"We don' need no stinkin' maskin' tape"
"We don' need no stinkin' maskin' tape"
rons
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2009
- Location
- California, USA
Guess this 10EE is grateful the spray-gun - or was it a string-mop? - didn't fit under the bottom of the bed casting, then?
I'm not sure I'd admit to learning much from watching Goldfinger.. "first time" - given the implication there was a second and subsequent time...
A slow learner always needs more time to figure out that watching Bond girls is better than looking at the lingerie section in the Sears Roebuck catalog.
andrewmawson
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2003
- Location
- UK
May have been a genuine attempt to stop rust in storage. Years ago there was a company called London Machinery in Crystal Palace (SE London)who had to store their s/h stock outside - some actually on the pavement (before they moved into the Old Tram Shed). They used to paint machines with varnish. It seemed to be effective. My very first lathe in 1980(round head Colchester Student)was treated like that - absolute b@@@@@@ to clean up but no rust !!!!!
Monarchist
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Location
- Sol, Terra
A slow learner always needs more time to figure out that watching Bond girls is better than looking at the lingerie section in the Sears Roebuck catalog.
Handicapped on the "visuals" to total indifference, here.
Learned way too early in life from smell, touch, and taste that "real" girls... are SERIOUSLY more enchanting creatures than printed page or silver screen....
Monarchist
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Location
- Sol, Terra
True as far as common sense goes, I suppose. Figure the dealer/staff viewpoint, of a near-certainty themselves a generation or three younger than the 10EE.
WTF value could a machine tool THAT OLD have left in it that stale chips, caked & dried oils, and general grunge could possibly enhance vs freezing the rusting process?
Paint - of THAT sort - comes off nearly as easily as it goes on, after all.
Spar varnish - the London example - not so much. Besides - for long years, London's synthetic coal-derived substitute for air was as corrosive - even lethal - as China's is now, if not more so...
John S01
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2017
- Location
- Sunnyvale CA
They even painted the pallet and steel strapping - Now that's CLASS!
It could be much worse. They might have pressure washed it. I've seen it on ebay (remnants of a sudsy puddle around 10ee), and have since started noticing it in other cases.
For posterity.
Attachments
Similar threads
