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1965 Monarch 610; What are these lathes worth?

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Hey everyone!

I recently picked up a 1965 Monarch 610 lathe I believe a 16x54 with assorted tooling and 3 and 4 jaw chuck. What is this machine worth? I know they are the cadillac of the manual lathe world but I'm primarily a cnc mill and lathe shop with some manual work. I have another 15x50 lathe with a ton of tooling which is usually more than we need and we dont really do any heavy material removal. The monarch is a beautiful machine but unfortunately is heavy and cumbersome for our current work flow. I like to be able to move equipment around, if we need to improve work flow so I'm thinking about selling the monarch and hope it can go to someone who is going to appreciate it and really use it. The machine came out of a naval machine shop and has DROS and various tooling. Just trying to get a realistic idea of what its worth so I know when I list it for sale.
 

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There's a beauty, slightly larger, at Turner's Machinery for $7000. Pacemaker, 1966, those are equivalent to the Monarch.

And there's been one or two here that didn't sell at ten, dropped to nine, dropped to eight, then I lost track.

If you want to sell it in a reasonable amount of time I'd guess five grand.
 
?? Common - as was the rack to position the TS - on MOST lathes above "light medium".

Basically HAD to be for any ordinary human to USE them with nought but muscle-power.

Less-common were POWERED TS rams and TS positioning. Yet even pre-1900 the rail industry had seen powered-spindles appear in tailstocks. There was a need. That need was addressed. That's how machine-tools came to be.

Meant I havent personally seen one. All the manual lathes I've ever used just had single screw not a 2 speed on the tail stock or even the crank and gear track for the tail stock. Awesome machine for sure.
 
There's a beauty, slightly larger, at Turner's Machinery for $7000. Pacemaker, 1966, those are equivalent to the Monarch.

And there's been one or two here that didn't sell at ten, dropped to nine, dropped to eight, then I lost track.

If you want to sell it in a reasonable amount of time I'd guess five grand.

Thank you, that was kind of my thoughts. I told people $6k with all the tooling. One of my buddies is a manual machinist and said I was asking low but I also dont want to sit on it forever. I just dont have the room to do so.
 
By definition, if they had SERIOUS money? It would not chase any OLD manual overdue for rebuild anyway. A new Hwacheon, ToS, or the like, rather.
Disagree with this part. The Monarchs and Pacemakers kick serious ass over most anything new. Some people like Axelsons, etc ... but during the high point of manual machines the people who built them also ran them. Makes a huge difference in the way the machine feels to operate.

Stuff that looks pretty on a screen often doesn't cut it in real life.
 
Mount the lathe in the boat.....gonna need it with rising sea levels,
hurrycains, etc.

Plus you can trailer boat/lathe combo anywhere needed or moved
to out of harms way.
 
That's a very nice lathe. I have it's predecessor, a 1957 Series 61. Mine weighs 10,000 lbs., and swings 18 1/2 X 54. My local trucking wrecker had zero troubles taking it (and my K&T 2K mill off the trailer and setting it down, nice and gentle like, just inside my shop door. Both machines took a couple of hours, only because he had to do some creative jacking of his truck to get the boom low enough to fit under the 10' shop door height.

A friend has a 21" swing 610, and it's a helluva lathe. Somebody will be getting a very capable heavy duty machine.

These are heavy duty beauties.
 








 
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