Does anyone recognize this lathe?

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Does anyone recognize this lathe?

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Does anyone recognize this lathe?

https://i.redd.it/gtzh3s77zh801.jpg
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Re: Does anyone recognize this lathe?

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I like the water pump pulley for the carriage handwheel!

Not sure if it is Chevrolet or Ford :D

It resembles a 1980's generic Taiwanese bench lathe, but most had step pulleys and a threaded spindle.
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Looks like it may have been oiled once in its life.

Pulley (hand wheel) could be Buick! :twisted:

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:) This goes back to what this gear head is. The bed base says it is later. It was worked and put away dirty for a long time.
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I usually refrain from judging, but one has to have no self respect to work day in and day out in filth and not take 10 minutes to tidy up.
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Stand it on the tailstock and make milkshakes with it.
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Margarita's!
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Re: Does anyone recognize this lathe?

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I've not seen the machine: the photo is all I know about it. I'm asking on behalf of a guy on another forum who has an opportunity to buy it for pretty much whatever he thinks it's worth. He says the chuck is 6" and he thinks the bed is 28". The owner died suddenly and his widow wants it gone.

Dirt is ok as long as it is *greasy* dirt: that cleans up. However it's in a shipping-container shop in Florida so serious corrosion is a real possibility. Hopefully he oiled it a lot and just never wiped it down.
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Just pay scrap price and then if it cleans up, renegotiate a decent price with the widow. Neither of you want to be taken advantage of.
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Judging by the appearance of the exposed metal surfaces, I'd avoid that machine unless I had no other options. It displays extensive rusting and appears to have never been oiled, let alone wiped.

Keep in mind--what one pays for in machine tools is precision. If it has been lost due to neglect, the machine will not serve well and can be the source of endless aggravation. There's a huge difference between making chips and making functional parts.

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I'm cheap by nature when it comes to non-essentials, which basically includes machine tools along with anything else to support my hobbies. If it's not making me money, I don't want to tie much up so that it can pay off in enjoyment of one form or another. That said, I completely agree with Harold. I wouldn't open my garage door to let someone deliver that to me for free, well maybe unless I needed non-wear/precision parts to fix a good one. Based on the pic, even for free, my opinion is that lathe will take way more to get into acceptable rough service (much less real precision) than it could possibly pay off in the long run.
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How about using it for wood?
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