Dean Smith & Grace

[pault]

Dean Smith & Grace lathe. $600 ???
truly a bargain. post? a few grand

[pault]

sorry forgot the link

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223213648208?ul_noapp=true

[Brock]

Wow,
considering the adds below for a mini lathe at $650. If I had the money and a truck I would bid (and a place to put it)

Wonder if it has a time travel setting???

( you have to have watched youtube vids by "This Old Tony " to get the joke)

[Biggles]

I deduce you were looking for a metal lathe, Paul...
That is one big one!  The difference in prices might have something to do with the small ones being new.  This one might have been toiling away for 40 years (or more).

[West Aussie Glen]

A big lathe, probably weighs over 2 tonnes And it is pick up in Roxby Downs, but if you had a need for such a machine and it is reasonable condition it is cheap.
Mine weighs about 1.5 tonnes and if I am at home is available for us by OzSTOC members or I am happy to do small jobs for members.


Excuse the surface rust it was stored in a marine environment before I purchased it.

[StinkyPete]

I guess it's so cheap because of the size and location, both of which rule out a purchase for most potential owners.    I also have a lathe around the same size as WAG's, and find that the vast majority of the jobs that I do on it are small tasks, such making bushes and spacers.  With that in mind, I reckon one of the little mini lathes would meet the needs of many home handymen.

[Biggles]

Those are pretty impressive lathes, guys.  I wouldn't know where to start with one.  I gather WAG has an engineering background.  Where did the ex-Copper learn how to use one?

[West Aussie Glen]

Started work as an engineering cadet with CSR Ltd. First two years part time uni while doing a fitting and turning apprenticeship.
A milling machine, shaper and 2 old surface grinders have now joined the lathe.

[StinkyPete]

Where did the ex-Copper learn how to use one?

My late and much loved Father-in-Law was a Tool and Die Maker, and despite little formal education was one of the cleverest people I have ever known.   His home workshop was a messy Adadins cave, and he could make anything out of almost nothing.  I've seen him make a piston for his old rotary hoe after melting old pistons in a forge and casting the blank for the new on in a hole in the ground, he made steam engines from scratch with no plans, and a hydraulic steering setup for his boat. There was always some magic happening in his shed.   Arthur taught me to use a lathe, gave me his ancient Brithsh (change wheel type ) lathe, and after he passed away, I inherited his "new" lathe.  I passed on his mill as I had no space, and no idea how to use it, but now wish I had taken it.     I love tinkering in my shed.

My shed is shown in this thread.    http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=238.msg60210#msg60210

A lathe is like a welder, once you have one and can use it, you wonder how you ever managed without it.

[pault]

over time i have had a few model A hersus/southbend/sheraton lathes, Dials a bit small but still found them easy to use with a "nice feel". something 2 chinese lathes did not have. I now have a hercus 260.  this is a geared head, I miss the quietness of the belt driven models.

[Gadget]

Lathes are wonderful. I learned to use then in metal work in high school, and the used more in the Army, and then more at work for another company and work still has a couple.

At high school, we also had a machine that used lathe bits in horizontal motion, and then it would lift, retract and repeat while the metal held still in a vice.

Welders can add metal, lathes and milling machine can take metal away.

If only I had a bigger shed.

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[Skip]

I envy guys with this talent and machinery. I have a pool cleaner that burns through small nylon gears like there is no tomorrow.  I would love to be able to turn my own brass gears to replace the nylon ones. (A pipe dream)