Landis lathe information

MetalCarnage

Stainless

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Apr 24, 2011

Location

Nebraska

• Sep 12, 2019

• #1

A Landis 12" x 40" lathe showed up on my local Craig's List and while the name kind of "rings a bell" I don't know if/or remember ever seeing one.

The price is kind of OUT there as well. Here is the ad (I'm not trying to help sell it and have no idea who owns it -FWIW):

[h=2]Landis 12X40 lathe - $6000 (Columbus NE)[/h]

Very heavy duty old landis lathe works and runs good but I have no use for something that big. $ 6000 obo


Comments?

-Ron

 

Demon69

Titanium

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Mar 3, 2013

Location

Area 69.

• Sep 12, 2019

• #2

MetalCarnage said:

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Nice lathe cept its a grinder

 

johnoder

Diamond

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Jul 16, 2004

Location

Houston, TX USA

• Sep 12, 2019

• #3

A universal at that

its a grinder

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from about 1936.

For this sort of work

 

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4GSR

Diamond

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Jan 25, 2005

Location

Victoria, Texas, USA

• Sep 12, 2019

• #4

Must be having a wet dream asking that much for it! Or thinks he's going to get that much for it.

 

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john.k

Diamond

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Dec 21, 2012

Location

Brisbane Qld Australia

• Sep 12, 2019

• #5

I have a similar 16x72 from 1942......by then they had "Microsphere" bearings..........but for some reason these machines always had small wheels for the size of machine..

 

gbent

Diamond

Joined

Mar 14, 2005

Location

Kansas

• Sep 13, 2019

• #6

Some sellers put an extra digit in the price. A few sellers put in two extra digits. This seller thinks his machine is so special there are three extra digits in the price.

 

Ray Behner

Diamond

Joined

Mar 27, 2009

Location

Brunswick Oh USA

• Sep 13, 2019

• #7

I had a 12 x 26 Landis that worked and very accurate at that. I offered it here for free. Jeremy Watts drove from Missouri and took her home.

 

MetalCarnage

Stainless

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Apr 24, 2011

Location

Nebraska

• Sep 13, 2019

• #8

4GSR said:

Must be having a wet dream asking that much for it! Or thinks he's going to get that much for it.

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A LOT of "machine ignorance" in this part of the country. There just aren't a whole lot of machines to begin with and very few have training/knowledge of them. You'd think that the internet would help set prices though...

-Ron

 

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john.k

Diamond

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Dec 21, 2012

Location

Brisbane Qld Australia

• Sep 13, 2019

• #9

The catch with old grinders is they can be a useful machine or heavy scrap metal with 1/8" wear in the ways from lubrication failure and grit infiltration......All the steadys would need to be there too.

 

4GSR

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Jan 25, 2005

Location

Victoria, Texas, USA

• Sep 15, 2019

• #10

john.k said:

T......All the steadys would need to be there too.

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John cornered the market with all of the steadies out there with his grinder.

 

johnoder

Diamond

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Jul 16, 2004

Location

Houston, TX USA

• Sep 15, 2019

• #11

4GSR said:

John cornered the market with all of the steadies out there with his grinder.

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Wish I had five more - with ten, I can grind a 3/8 dia X 60" nice and straight