Sheldon Lathe for Sale

Thanks Pete. It has already been noted over on the Sheldon Lathe Yahoo site and there is a lot of buzzing around over it. I have an 11” Sheldon; fine machine.

MrRon,
Is their asking price fair from what you can see in the add?

-- Pete, "It isn't broken, you just aren't using it right."

Hard to say – a lot depends on how much work it
needs to bring it to a given standard of precision.

Metal lathes develop tiny amounts of slop in sliding
parts and deviations from flat in the ways. While
they can be restored, it’s a lot of labor and requires
skill to do it.

that’s an old piece of scrap iron not worth $500 even leave well alone you can do much better for $1500 than that antique junk.IMHO ask these guys I have been with them for years Alistair

http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forums/3-General

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Alistair,
Thanks for the input…especially the link!!!
Not a machinist (of metal) but who can tell…I do want a metal lathe because of the different things you can do with it (screw feed, threading, metal turning.)

-- Pete, "It isn't broken, you just aren't using it right."