Doug W
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2003
- Location
- Pacific NW
Been looking for a better, bigger lathe and found a Toolmex, 1990 Andrychow Tug 40, 17.5" tool room lathe at the scrapyard.
Surprisingly 'looks' in pretty good condition.
Rare to see any usable manual machines at the scrapyard. So this was a find.
Whomever scrapped it removed the cross feed dial, housing and short shaft and the small gear that is driven by the power cross feed. So I have to find or make those.
Acquired a bit of scrapyard rash. Ouch! The chip tray, feed engagement shaft are bent and part of the cast iron coolant drain on the foot is chipped off. All should be easy fixes.
It wasn't there long and any rust rubs off with kroil and scotchbright leaving only faint stains on the ways.
The bed is flame hardened on these with no signs of crashes or abuse.
Tailstock was there, and so was a taper attachment (sweet) otherwise zero tooling.
Pisser was I was at the yard a couple of weeks ago and saw a large foreign looking steady rest on a pallet. Suspected Asian. Thought about buying it but not knowing what it fit I passed.
NOW the lathe showed up, that steady was for this Tug..... long gone to the Chinese smelters.. I looked around but it is gone, darn.
5100lbs and $800 on the trailer and down the road.
A screaming deal in these parts of delusional $4000 rusted and crusted yard art. lol
Metal Lathe - heavy equipment - by owner - sale
Unfortunately I won't have time to work on or evaluate it, too many other projects to get out of the way 1st.
Just going to get it out of the weather and slobber marine grease on it.
Here is the specs.
http://manuals.chudov.com/toolmex-andrychow-brochure.pdf
As a bonus, it has the readable cast aluminum raised number speed and feed charts, not the magically disappearing printed ink version on a flat sheet of aluminum.
Hopefully it doesn't have anything mortally wrong with it, if it does I guess I could part it out.
Surprisingly 'looks' in pretty good condition.
Rare to see any usable manual machines at the scrapyard. So this was a find.
Whomever scrapped it removed the cross feed dial, housing and short shaft and the small gear that is driven by the power cross feed. So I have to find or make those.
Acquired a bit of scrapyard rash. Ouch! The chip tray, feed engagement shaft are bent and part of the cast iron coolant drain on the foot is chipped off. All should be easy fixes.
It wasn't there long and any rust rubs off with kroil and scotchbright leaving only faint stains on the ways.
The bed is flame hardened on these with no signs of crashes or abuse.
Tailstock was there, and so was a taper attachment (sweet) otherwise zero tooling.
Pisser was I was at the yard a couple of weeks ago and saw a large foreign looking steady rest on a pallet. Suspected Asian. Thought about buying it but not knowing what it fit I passed.
NOW the lathe showed up, that steady was for this Tug..... long gone to the Chinese smelters.. I looked around but it is gone, darn.
5100lbs and $800 on the trailer and down the road.
A screaming deal in these parts of delusional $4000 rusted and crusted yard art. lol
Metal Lathe - heavy equipment - by owner - sale
Unfortunately I won't have time to work on or evaluate it, too many other projects to get out of the way 1st.
Just going to get it out of the weather and slobber marine grease on it.
Here is the specs.
http://manuals.chudov.com/toolmex-andrychow-brochure.pdf
As a bonus, it has the readable cast aluminum raised number speed and feed charts, not the magically disappearing printed ink version on a flat sheet of aluminum.
Hopefully it doesn't have anything mortally wrong with it, if it does I guess I could part it out.