Ultradog MN
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2020
Hello Fellas,
First post here.
I tried to make a post yesterday but it disappeared into the ether.
I brought home the proverbial "pig in a poke" yesterday.
This old lathe was crammed into a storage garage with the front side to the wall and stuff piled above and around it so I couldn't look it over. The father was selling his deceased son's things and knew nothing about it.
Made the deal a week ago and when I go to pick it up it's pretty obvious the lathe has been tipped over some time in its recent past. Broke the hand wheel on the carriage, the handles on the crossfeed and compound and busted the on/off/forward/reverse switch off.
You can imagine my heart sinking when I went to pick it up and saw all that damage.
But... I had agreed to buy it and felt bad for the guy who lost his son (2 bullet holes in the back) and so I gritted my teeth, girded my loins and went ahead with the deal. I've whizzed away $400 on whisky and women before and didn't get so much as 10 lbs of scrap iron then. Here I got about 800 lbs.
I need some advice tho.
If it tipped over does that automatically make it scrap? Where could I find someone to look it over, evaluate it for me and tell me what to do with it? Am in the Twin Cities MN and could haul it somewhere - it's still on my trailer.
I'm pretty handy - restore old tractors, can weld and braze here at home. Was a fledgling machinist in the Navy for 4 years - about 45 years ago now but never followed the trade. Could still single point a set of threads tho. If I had a lathe.
I didn't expect this thing to be a turn-key deal by any means but I don't need a big restoration project either.
Where do I go from here?
Thank you.
Jerry
PS, I could get some photos for you later.
First post here.
I tried to make a post yesterday but it disappeared into the ether.
I brought home the proverbial "pig in a poke" yesterday.
This old lathe was crammed into a storage garage with the front side to the wall and stuff piled above and around it so I couldn't look it over. The father was selling his deceased son's things and knew nothing about it.
Made the deal a week ago and when I go to pick it up it's pretty obvious the lathe has been tipped over some time in its recent past. Broke the hand wheel on the carriage, the handles on the crossfeed and compound and busted the on/off/forward/reverse switch off.
You can imagine my heart sinking when I went to pick it up and saw all that damage.
But... I had agreed to buy it and felt bad for the guy who lost his son (2 bullet holes in the back) and so I gritted my teeth, girded my loins and went ahead with the deal. I've whizzed away $400 on whisky and women before and didn't get so much as 10 lbs of scrap iron then. Here I got about 800 lbs.
I need some advice tho.
If it tipped over does that automatically make it scrap? Where could I find someone to look it over, evaluate it for me and tell me what to do with it? Am in the Twin Cities MN and could haul it somewhere - it's still on my trailer.
I'm pretty handy - restore old tractors, can weld and braze here at home. Was a fledgling machinist in the Navy for 4 years - about 45 years ago now but never followed the trade. Could still single point a set of threads tho. If I had a lathe.
I didn't expect this thing to be a turn-key deal by any means but I don't need a big restoration project either.
Where do I go from here?
Thank you.
Jerry
PS, I could get some photos for you later.