I have a lathe I bought a few years ago and I always thought it was a 9A but a quick check around with the serial number 7673KAR8 suggests I have a light 10 unless I misunderstood how to read it. Anyway I’m thinking of upgrading to a Delta 10 for sale in my area for ease of use - variable speed drive undermount and bigger bore -and I’m trying to get a guess of what mine might be worth.
It came with a lot of tooling I mostly don’t use. (Almost all I do with a lathe is make fasteners and leveling feet and occasional tooling for forging. I almost never turn between centers and I’m almost always within a couple inches of the headstock.)
It seems like I can’t upload pictures through the mobile site so I’ll have to add them later but it has three and four jaw chucks with a reversing set of jaws for the three jaw. I also have a faceplate and dogs, and a Jacobs rubberflex collet chuck. I have the lantern tool post with left, right, and straight holders plus the parting tool holder, knurls, and something like a fly cutter. There’s also a quick change tool holder and a boring bar setup plus a bunch of hss cutters and Morse taper bits. Overall condition is pretty good. Scraping is visible on most of the 3 1/2’ bed except near the headstock. All gears and feeds work as does the thread dial. I think there is some wear in the plain bearings at the headstock and/or in the cross slide because it definitely moves a fractional amount when advancing a tool into the work.
I’ll probably want to keep the Jacobs chuck, the cutter grinder, grinder jig and a few of the cutters but most of it is beyond my skills or needs and the chucks won’t work with the LO on the Delta.
The Delta comes with nothing but the three and four jaw chucks for $1600.
So my questions are, what’s a fair value for mine, and is the Delta an upgrade for my needs?
Thanks so much for your advice. Regards to all.
It came with a lot of tooling I mostly don’t use. (Almost all I do with a lathe is make fasteners and leveling feet and occasional tooling for forging. I almost never turn between centers and I’m almost always within a couple inches of the headstock.)
It seems like I can’t upload pictures through the mobile site so I’ll have to add them later but it has three and four jaw chucks with a reversing set of jaws for the three jaw. I also have a faceplate and dogs, and a Jacobs rubberflex collet chuck. I have the lantern tool post with left, right, and straight holders plus the parting tool holder, knurls, and something like a fly cutter. There’s also a quick change tool holder and a boring bar setup plus a bunch of hss cutters and Morse taper bits. Overall condition is pretty good. Scraping is visible on most of the 3 1/2’ bed except near the headstock. All gears and feeds work as does the thread dial. I think there is some wear in the plain bearings at the headstock and/or in the cross slide because it definitely moves a fractional amount when advancing a tool into the work.
I’ll probably want to keep the Jacobs chuck, the cutter grinder, grinder jig and a few of the cutters but most of it is beyond my skills or needs and the chucks won’t work with the LO on the Delta.
The Delta comes with nothing but the three and four jaw chucks for $1600.
So my questions are, what’s a fair value for mine, and is the Delta an upgrade for my needs?
Thanks so much for your advice. Regards to all.
