Hi, new to the forum, long time lurker etc. Made this post bc I'm getting a lathe for my workshop.
Found it at a local machinery dealer in Sacramento, it's a clean looking lathe, 1968 LeBlond Regal 15x30, 3hp, and very heavily built by the looks of it, comes with tooling (3j,4j chucks, qctp, steady rest), decent price for Northern CA (quoted $4500), figure I'll go for it. I'm heading over to inspect under power on Monday.
What's weird is the shipping weight, quoted by the dealer and in the LeBlond catalogs I've found as 3500-4000 pounds, which seems unbelievable for a 15x30 lathe. But indeed, the dealer weighed the machine on the scale and it comes to an enormous 4200 pounds!
As I understand it, that kind of weight is in the territory of 15x50 or even larger lathes, and for the the measured weight to exceed even the manufacturer's listed shipping weight seems very strange.
Have any of you owned or moved this kind of machine or one like it? I was imagining this thing would be nearer 2500 pounds, but nearly a full ton more of weight will make moving this thing a real task. What do you think?
Found it at a local machinery dealer in Sacramento, it's a clean looking lathe, 1968 LeBlond Regal 15x30, 3hp, and very heavily built by the looks of it, comes with tooling (3j,4j chucks, qctp, steady rest), decent price for Northern CA (quoted $4500), figure I'll go for it. I'm heading over to inspect under power on Monday.
What's weird is the shipping weight, quoted by the dealer and in the LeBlond catalogs I've found as 3500-4000 pounds, which seems unbelievable for a 15x30 lathe. But indeed, the dealer weighed the machine on the scale and it comes to an enormous 4200 pounds!
As I understand it, that kind of weight is in the territory of 15x50 or even larger lathes, and for the the measured weight to exceed even the manufacturer's listed shipping weight seems very strange.
Have any of you owned or moved this kind of machine or one like it? I was imagining this thing would be nearer 2500 pounds, but nearly a full ton more of weight will make moving this thing a real task. What do you think?