Wade C
Stainless
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2004
- Location
- Wiggins CO. USA
My oldest Okuma lathe (1980) has reached the end of its affordable life for me... Spindle bearing time - and based on the estimates Ive heard to do fix (6-10k), its just not worth it. Pretty sure I dont have the skills to do it myself even if I thought I wanted to spend the big chunk on the parts. She's also getting a little on the sloppy side in terms of holding size - so guessing the 39 years of life have gotten to her.
Now I need to do something with the ol gal... Trying to figure out what to ask for as a "parts machine" - knowing that electronically its just fine, its mechanical stuff that needs attention - and its all pretty spendy stuff. I occasionally see some things for an LC10 listed on the auction site, and it either strikes me as crazy expensive or absurdly cheap. But I guess it sort of comes down to whether its something that is more common to fail or something that never needs replaced.
So far, the only suggestion I have heard is 250-500 bucks for it... but that seems a bit like a low number considering the cost of the drives in the cabinet. But Its also really old. So maybe its not so far off? Course figure in the cost of getting it loaded and it quickly becomes more expensive "bucket of parts"
Any suggestions on the kind of things should I consider when deciding on a fair price to ask for it?
Im not under any huge time crunch to get it out of here, so have some time to think and decide. But maybe Im just wasting my time even worrying about it and should just send er off to the scrapper? I dunno.
Wade
Now I need to do something with the ol gal... Trying to figure out what to ask for as a "parts machine" - knowing that electronically its just fine, its mechanical stuff that needs attention - and its all pretty spendy stuff. I occasionally see some things for an LC10 listed on the auction site, and it either strikes me as crazy expensive or absurdly cheap. But I guess it sort of comes down to whether its something that is more common to fail or something that never needs replaced.
So far, the only suggestion I have heard is 250-500 bucks for it... but that seems a bit like a low number considering the cost of the drives in the cabinet. But Its also really old. So maybe its not so far off? Course figure in the cost of getting it loaded and it quickly becomes more expensive "bucket of parts"
Any suggestions on the kind of things should I consider when deciding on a fair price to ask for it?
Im not under any huge time crunch to get it out of here, so have some time to think and decide. But maybe Im just wasting my time even worrying about it and should just send er off to the scrapper? I dunno.
Wade