Hey guys,
I'm a mechanic setting up my personal shop, and I stumbled upon a W&S no.4 with tooling and a phase converter for $300. It belonged to an older couple's son that recently passed away, so they don't know much about it but she said that he bought it from a machine shop and it was in good working order.
There was stuff scattered around the barn but I was able to locate a bucket of tooling and cutters, a box of collets, a bar feeder(?) buried in a snow bank and what looks like a brand new phase converter.
I wasn't able to locate any jaw chucks, and I noticed that there wasn't much oil in the sight glass. Anyway did I do good for $300 for all this stuff? I know next to nothing about lathes or how to operate them, but I'd be using this thing for fabrication of random stuff in small quantities. Mostly forming, tapering, and facing aluminum and steel.
I'm a mechanic setting up my personal shop, and I stumbled upon a W&S no.4 with tooling and a phase converter for $300. It belonged to an older couple's son that recently passed away, so they don't know much about it but she said that he bought it from a machine shop and it was in good working order.
There was stuff scattered around the barn but I was able to locate a bucket of tooling and cutters, a box of collets, a bar feeder(?) buried in a snow bank and what looks like a brand new phase converter.
I wasn't able to locate any jaw chucks, and I noticed that there wasn't much oil in the sight glass. Anyway did I do good for $300 for all this stuff? I know next to nothing about lathes or how to operate them, but I'd be using this thing for fabrication of random stuff in small quantities. Mostly forming, tapering, and facing aluminum and steel.