Monarch lathes at auction, Tennessee

Hickory · Dec 11, 2018

Hi All,

Came across this auction that is a who's who of American machine tool manufacturers. Included are several Monarch lathes, selling not one,but two 13EEs.

No connection with this. Somebody please save them. Furrow Auction Company. 12 December, online only.

Jim

Veebee · Dec 12, 2018

That I/M 10EE w/ 10 hours on it... brb calling my bank for an emergency loan :P

Mark999 · Dec 12, 2018

I'm watching that lathe this morning too. Strange auction, whenever it gets a bid, they add 10 minutes to the auction. So much for sniping.

Mebfab · Dec 12, 2018

Thats how bidspotter runs it. The eternal auction.

And talk about lazy. Poor pictures, few of them, minimal descriptions.

Veebee · Dec 12, 2018

20k for that '89 EE. Somebody's wallet was on fire this morning. The Schaublin is going for $$ too. Gotta be some happy auctioneers this morning. Made my train commute more fun at least to watch.

rklopp · Dec 12, 2018

I googled the address and see that the site was a former Alcoa facility. It seems like an odd collection of equipment for a company like Alcoa. Anybody know what that facility did? It looks like there is a Snap-On forge shop next door, so I wonder whether the Alcoa facility really was part of Snap-On, because the auction includes forging hammers.

Steve in SoCal · Dec 12, 2018

The "deal' of this auction maybe was the Rivett 1030? Including the 15% buys fee the numbers were far and above what I was expecting. There were actually three 13EE's the top price was 12,250 + 15%, 14 grand and change, wow.

I am not sure the machinery on site was from that plant. There was a lot of stuff on pallets and sorted in rows. Eastman and Oak Ridge are close by and had a lot of the same type of equipment?

Steve

mmarquette · Dec 12, 2018

Saw this one myself. That pace maker and boring mill would have been great. 10 K would have got alot of iron for sure. The Hendey T and Gs were well represented too. Be cryin over this one for awhile.

Mebfab · Dec 12, 2018

Boring mill. $500.

MCritchley · Dec 12, 2018

I had no idea self contained power hammers went for that much! I seen a similar situation at a tool sale in Milwaukee over the weekend. Overpriced anvils that were selling for much more that this auctions anvils.

I wonder if anyone here bought any of the nice toolroom lathes? That was a fantasy sale of fine lathes. However none of them looked they they had been in service recently.

Steve in SoCal · Dec 12, 2018

thermite said:
Could indeed have been a "collection of the legends", multiple sources. Or the estate of an earlier collector-of same.

Not a lot wrong with a Rivett 10X0 (S), especially 1030, but still. A 1000EE // 13EE can handle larger work yet and is way easier to drop a modern 3-Phase-only 24-pulse DC Drive onto. Providing one HAS good 3-Phase for it, of course.

Yea,

I was kinda hoping the 13EE's would be cheap, I had that very concept in mind.

Steve

Cole2534 · Dec 12, 2018

Mebfab said:
Boring mill. $500.

What was it? I still crave a small one to top off my iron addiction.

Machinery_E · Dec 12, 2018

Interesting auction for sure, there were some buys there. Anyone here get anything?

I believe it was all part of the collection of a PM member here.

Spinit · Dec 12, 2018

I think like you guys I should go to some auctions as I have just monitored them yet never attended myself.

Steve in SoCal · Dec 12, 2018

Machinery_E said:
Interesting auction for sure, there were some buys there. Anyone here get anything?

I believe it was all part of the collection of a PM member here.

Would that have been a gent who go by the name of a fine Bandsaw by chance?

Steve

Mebfab · Dec 12, 2018

Cole2534 said:
What was it? I still crave a small one to top off my iron addiction.

Small Ceruti, built in rotaty table. No outboard to be seen.

Rob F. · Dec 12, 2018

MCritchley said:
I had no idea self contained power hammers went for that much! I seen a similar situation at a tool sale in Milwaukee over the weekend. Overpriced anvils that were selling for much more that this auctions anvils.

I didnt look at auction yet, Do you remember what brand and size were they? Always interested in what this world is doing....

MCritchley · Dec 12, 2018

Rob F. said:
I didnt look at auction yet, Do you remember what brand and size were they? Always interested in what this world is doing....

The prices are still up on the auction site, i think the hammers were self contained Nazel's

Spinit · Dec 12, 2018

I guess auctions have been good for you guys.

Rob F. · Dec 12, 2018

Yes, two Nazel 3b's, one is a two piece other 1 piece, $25.5k and $25k a Nazel 5b $16,250 and an old 200lb Beaudry $3.1k

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