HiltzMachining
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2018
- Location
- Aroostook County
Good afternoon,
I recently got a lead on a very nice late model USA Heavy 10 with quite a bit of tooling. I'm tight on cash as I just recently took my shop full time and I don't have a huge amount of cash flow yet. Anyway, my shop consists of a 14x40 lathe, a Bridgeport Series 1, Sunnen hone, Rhodes shaper, surface grinder, presses and full welding capabilities. I'm a small job shop focusing on repair work and power sports applications (bore/hone cylinders for rotax etc). I've had this business for 2 years and just recently took the leap from running it part time to going full time. I'm currently making my bills and I'm not in debt, but things are tight right now for sure compared to having that steady guaranteed paycheck.
Up until now, I had a a second lathe. It was a little "toy lathe" (Atlas 12x36) that I recently sold, but I liked having a smaller lathe available in my shop (Yes, I realize the 14x40 is still a small lathe).
I really need to expand into a much larger lathe 18-20" swing, preferably at last 6' bed, but I kind of miss having the bench lathe, too. I do make small bushings and pins and it was convenient to have the small lathe for that purpose.
A good friend of mine who has a very successful job shop business (all manual) since 1982 says I'm wasting my time and money on another small machine, and to just put the money toward getting my larger machine. He says don't waste your time on more than one small machine. Just go big now.
My 14x40 is an old Logan 6560 which has seen better days. My strategy was to grab this S.B. Heavy 10 and then find my "big lathe," and eventually sell the Logan and get it out of my shop, leaving me with the S.B 10L and whatever larger lathe I end up acquiring.
What do you guys think? The 10L is obviously a very light machine, but its worlds ahead of that Sears lathe I had, and I actually did make money using the Atlas lathe......
What would you do? This S.B. 10L is in such pristine condition and has so much tooling that its just darn hard for me to pass it over.
I recently got a lead on a very nice late model USA Heavy 10 with quite a bit of tooling. I'm tight on cash as I just recently took my shop full time and I don't have a huge amount of cash flow yet. Anyway, my shop consists of a 14x40 lathe, a Bridgeport Series 1, Sunnen hone, Rhodes shaper, surface grinder, presses and full welding capabilities. I'm a small job shop focusing on repair work and power sports applications (bore/hone cylinders for rotax etc). I've had this business for 2 years and just recently took the leap from running it part time to going full time. I'm currently making my bills and I'm not in debt, but things are tight right now for sure compared to having that steady guaranteed paycheck.
Up until now, I had a a second lathe. It was a little "toy lathe" (Atlas 12x36) that I recently sold, but I liked having a smaller lathe available in my shop (Yes, I realize the 14x40 is still a small lathe).
I really need to expand into a much larger lathe 18-20" swing, preferably at last 6' bed, but I kind of miss having the bench lathe, too. I do make small bushings and pins and it was convenient to have the small lathe for that purpose.
A good friend of mine who has a very successful job shop business (all manual) since 1982 says I'm wasting my time and money on another small machine, and to just put the money toward getting my larger machine. He says don't waste your time on more than one small machine. Just go big now.
My 14x40 is an old Logan 6560 which has seen better days. My strategy was to grab this S.B. Heavy 10 and then find my "big lathe," and eventually sell the Logan and get it out of my shop, leaving me with the S.B 10L and whatever larger lathe I end up acquiring.
What do you guys think? The 10L is obviously a very light machine, but its worlds ahead of that Sears lathe I had, and I actually did make money using the Atlas lathe......
What would you do? This S.B. 10L is in such pristine condition and has so much tooling that its just darn hard for me to pass it over.