On Saturday 23 April 2016 11:46:43 Jon Elson wrote: > On 04/22/2016 11:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > So don't buy any LeBlond or Monarch with broken or missing parts. > > Except perhaps a 10EE. There's plenty of those laying about in all > > kinds of sub-functional condition. > > This applies to ALL older machines! There are a few > machines where a huge supply of spares is constantly > floating around. These are such as the Atlas/Craftsman > lathes and the Bridgeport vertical mills. There are > probably a few others. There are still parts being produced > for Atlas (Clausing Service Center) and Bridgeport (now > Hardinge). > > I bought a Sheldon lathe (Really TOP of the line design, > definitely LeBlond or Monarch level, possibly even better). > But, going into it, I knew that parts would not be available > at any reasonable price. When I got it, I discovered a > broken gear tooth in the QC box, and was amazed to find that > a replacement gear actually COULD be obtained. But, > DeVlieg-Bullard II (the owner of the rights to Sheldon) > wanted about $450 to make the gear for me. > > But, most of these big, old, production machines are very > well made, and other than a severe crash, can be kept > running for quite some time. > > Jon > I looked at a Sheldon on the HGR site, $1799 IIRC, but it was a couple feet longer and about a ton heavier. Weight concerns me as my garage floor is about 7 to 8" of poured 5000 lb concrete, but not a rebar in the mix. And its already full of hairline cracks.
It did look to be fairly complete, even had a QC tool holder mounted in the pix. But to get it here would have needed riggers and a freight line van to get it to my driveway. And it would be quite the fun to get more than a 20 foot straight box van in AND back out of here. That would likely add at least another thou to the $ total. But I'll keep the site in mind in case something shows up that I can haul & handle with a 2000 lb rated cherry picker. That looks to be about a days drive each way for me. I discovered something else last night, hoss's (Daniel Kemp of hossmachine.xxx) locale is right here in WV, way up in the panhandle, perhaps 100 miles NW of Pittsburgh. He has some cute stuff as I saw on one of his BF20/G0704's, what can only be a worm drive head rotation to tilt the head left or right. But I didn't find a video on that on his site. Looked to be maybe 5/8" thick and would be handier than bottled beer for my machine. Hand cranked worm, but I might figure out how to motorize it if I could unlock it easily. Currently on mine, thats 4 big bolts to loosen and quite some contortions to set it dead level for horizontal rigid tapping (which worked great BTW). Thanks Jon. If I do buy a Sheldon, I may pester you for hints & tricks. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
