It is worth 3k, as-is. Imo.
Because of not running, and no idea on potential big issues.
3-6k++ in potential costs re: bearings, ways, slides, etc.
1500-2000$ will put an industrial AC brushless servo on it, 5x better than it ever had.
Motor, belts, drive, everything.
3x the torque, 3-10x the acceleration, and auto crash prevention due to servo timeouts in about 1 ms, 0.001 secs.
It looks great ! and might be a 12-15k lathe with 100 hours of labour, cleanup, minor items, and some electrical stuff.
Bidding for that future target value, say 6-8k as-is, means You think and guess there are zero expensive issues at play.
This is quite unlikely.
Imho.
600$ c/would put a great VFD/motor on it, all-in, junking all old electrical. Parts only.
Fitting, more than that, much more.
Bearings on x,z, screw issues x/z, c(w)ould all cost 500$ or more, industrial, each. Parts, wholesale.
So would ways on cross-slide, saddle, z.
Any chipped gears.
Any gearbox issues at all. Lots of work-hours to learn, strip, assemble.
Clutch ? Bearings on feeds ? Wear ? Mounts on all 30+ parts above ?
Making any of the mounts, fits, parts, is not hard at all for any competent machinist.
But they all take time in hours.
If one is somewhat skilled and experienced in machine tools one can bring the lathe to excellent conditions, for not much cost in parts.
But this takes maybe 300 hours of work, imo, ime, if almost-all of the lathe works perfectly.
So if one has endless spare hours, a small outlay of cash can bring in a good theoretical contribution margin.
Say, pay 3k, sell 12k, 4 months later, after 5-600 hours work + 1900$ in parts.
This would be my guesstimate.
I didn’t notice any however I didn’t look very well either.
My question is what it’s worth as it sits.
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