I'm looking at a used Clausing Metosa CNC tool room lathe

[lin842]

My shop burned to the ground in December last year and took with it pretty much everything I had. I've been looking at mills and lathes and there sure seems to be a lot available out there in the used market. I found the mill I wanted and have already paid for it but the same guy has several other machines that I am looking at also so I can get both of them delivered at the same time. The mill is a Bridgeport series 1 knee mill w/rebuilt 2 hp 2J head,Newall DP 700 DRO, New X and knee Power feeds, kurt power draw bar with new lead screws and lead nuts, Bijur one shot lube, new paint and Chrome ways.
The lathe I am looking at is a 17x45 Clausing Metosa CNC tool room lathe. I really wasn't looking for CNC but this is CNC/manual operation so I figured I could run manual while I get up to speed with CNC. I don't use this stuff for production work just mainly for making parts for the projects I do around my shop, I also do small jobs for a few shops around town.
I'm not very familiar with Clausing other than just hearing the name on different sites once in awhile. The guy said it is in excellent shape and he sent me a video of it up and running. What I'm wondering, is there anyone on here that is fimiliar with this machine and could give me their thoughts. Thanks

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[Kallam]

I have clausing storm 80 cnc lathe. Ive had it for 23 years
never had a a problem with it . They are good lathes you can still get factory parts for them.
What caused the fire in your shop?

 

[lin842]

I have clausing storm 80 cnc lathe. Ive had it for 23 years
never had a a problem with it . They are good lathes you can still get factory parts for them.
What caused the fire in your shop?

Thanks, Neither the fire marshall nor the insurance investagator could come to any conclusion on the cause. I had my own idea but they both dismissed them. There was nothing left for them to even look at everything just burned right down into the concrete.

 

[boslab]

Totally losing everything sends a chill down my spine , awful, my sympathy, glad you’ve picked yourself back up to continue, 10/10, keep it up.
I was told the clausing metsa is similar to the Harrison alpha man/cnc lathe, I was pleased I could work one ok, great for small runs too.
Mark

 

[lin842]

Totally losing everything sends a chill down my spine , awful, my sympathy, glad you’ve picked yourself back up to continue, 10/10, keep it up.
I was told the clausing metsa is similar to the Harrison alpha man/cnc lathe, I was pleased I could work one ok, great for small runs too.
Mark

Yes it was bad, I couldn't talk to anyone about it for like 2 months afterward without tearing up. The machines can be replaced but the other stuff I had in there like old antiques I had hanging on the walls that I had collected over the past 60 years. I Civil War relic hunted for over 50 years and had thousands of relics on display in a room next to where I had my machines and most all that stuff was totally gone. All accept about 25 cannon balls and artillary shells most of which came out fair but I had several that had the lead sabots on them and a couple that had paper fuses still in them which made them rare. I had thousands of CW bullets and most were all melted in piles on the floor, one pile weighed 45 lbs.
I also have been hunting fossils and Indian artifacts for years also and I had Meg teeth that were 6.5" long and thousands of other smaller teeth and bones. I had a baleen Whale skull that was about 50% there and we left the rest in the bank to be recovered later. I had a Makaira (blue marlin) jaw bone that I was about to donate to a museum I have friends at. I also had the tail bone from the same fish which made it that much more interesting. Only one other jaw bone was known to have been found on the whole east coast and that one was nowhere as well perserved as I recovered from this site. I found two small crab fossils and one turned out to be a new sub species and the other is believed to be a whole new species, they are still researching that somewhere in Europe. Thankfully I had already donated those. I won' but thanks for your thoughts.t bore you guys with anymore of this because it is a tad off topic.

 

[Bill D]

I was told the clausing metsa is similar to the Harrison alpha man/cnc lathe,

Clausing and Harrison are both owned by the 600 group so they may be identical except for the nameplate. The Harrison m300 has been rebadged as Clausing, Wilton, Doall and maybe more names.
BilL D