Ok, so the Nebel ad has been deleted by the seller.
Did anyone here buy it?
I have it now.
A construction guy bought it at local auction, knew nothing about it, or lathes in general, wanted to run of a VFD, and maybe tried, not sure. Had no 3 phase. He had it for a month or two. So I took a gamble and got it not under power. Really was hard to consider passing it up after reading what Halcohead and JHOLLAND1 said in posts 4 & 5.
I was able to spin it by hand and it moved and power feed worked. No bad noises from anywhere while turning it over and it moved smooth and easy so I bet the mechanics are good. (except broken gear)
The little pinion gear that moves the carriage L&R is broken. Hard to see in there but it looks like it split open at an internal keyway. Just need to catch up on a few things and get the apron off and have a look-see in there.
The missing sheet metal cover is in the pan. No taper attach, not sure how to tell if it was removed or if it never had one?
No visible wear on the ways at all. no nicks or scrathes or ridge, all seemed very good.
Everything looked original, really nice and un molested except the left lever for starting, been replaced with a piece of all-thread. Easy to put that back to being correct, Just a rod with threads on each end.
440 only motor so I need to get a transformer to be able to run it. Found a few locally that might work...Know more when the guy with them gets back and can look at tags.
Looks like a very special motor so no it can be swapped out.