Subject: is this lathe FS a good deal?

From: [email-masked] (Jim Waggener)
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 22:47:40 GMT

Quoted from the local paper:

LeBlond Regal, 13x60, 3 phase, 8 spd, gear head w/some tooling $950.

This worth a second look? Opinions?

Jim Waggener

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan M. Elson)
Date: 5 Dec 1996 06:29:24 GMT

ANDY POPKY ([email-masked]) wrote:
: you beter turn off your computer
: and go look at it
: check the s/n
: if you give me the s/n i can tell you the age 
: if it is in halfway decent shape
: then BUY IT 

My thoughts, exactly.  $950 is a good price, even if the lathe is well
worn, and has few accessories.  If in good condition, you'd better break
the news to us gently, over a couple weeks or so.
						Jon

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Davis)
Date: 5 Dec 1996 16:06:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, ANDY POPKY <[email-masked]> writes:
-> check the s/n
-> if you give me the s/n i can tell you the age 
-> if it is in halfway decent shape
-> then BUY IT 

what about a Meuser 18" (26 with gap) by 84" lathe?

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 12:20:38 -0800

At $900 something is eather very wrong with the lathe or with the seller.
Outside of the size and moving considerations I would take a good look at 
it,  Unless of course it is in the Madison WI area; then you should 
avoid it at all costs and send me the sellers phone number so I can give 
him a piece of your mind. : -}

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From: Tom Kruesel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:40:47 -0600

Not at all.  It's a worthless piece of junk.  In fact, if you tell me how 
to get in touch with the person selling it, I'll tell him what I think 
(Which is....I'll give you $925!)  :^)

Tom

(always looking, never able to afford)

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Dec 1996 06:37:34 GMT

You mean you haven't bought it yet?

Cecil in OK

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Waggener)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 07:21:17 GMT

>Jim Waggener

Whoops, I was a day late and a dollar short (again!)
The lathe was sold to the first comer.
The guy who owned it said it was purchased at auction
>from  one of the local high schools.

ANOTHER school shop course bites the dust.

Jim Waggener

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From: ANDY POPKY <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 19:00:30 -0500

> what about a Meuser 18" (26 with gap) by 84" lathe?

WHAT ABOUT IT??

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Dec 1996 01:22:04 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jim

>This worth a second look? Opinions?

  I would really want to hear it under power and do a thorough inspection
before I bought it. While I think that the LeBlonde Regal would make a
really good home shop lathe it doesn't seem to hold up well in a
industrial setting. Of the 5 lathes in the shop where I work the 15x60
LeBlonde that we have is the newest. And it is the only one that we have
ever had to replace a gear in the head stock. It is fairly easy to miss
getting it in gear by a little and thus snapping a tooth off the gear. The
gears also seem to be very expensive. It cost us more than $3,000 to
replace one gear in the head stock, one section of rack and the pinion
that runs on it, and the bevel gear that slides on the power feed rod.
Some one else might know where to get the parts cheaper and I would like
to know if they do. We could use a couple of more gears in the head stock.
As it is the lathe is fairly noisy in several of its ranges. In other
words I would check out every gear range on the lathe and do a careful
inspection of the feed rod and apron. If nothing is wrong then I would say
go for it I really like to use the one at work. It is a lot easier to use
than some of the really heavy stuff that we have.

Hope this helps

   Wayne Cook

Quality is like buying oats,
        if you want nice, clean, fresh oats you must pay a fair price.

However, 
        if you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through
the horse...
                          
That comes a little cheaper...

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From: ANDY POPKY <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 16:25:32 -0500

Steve Davis wrote:

> ->> what about a Meuser 18" (26 with gap) by 84" lathe?
> ->
> ->WHAT ABOUT IT??
> 
> ... can you tell the age from s/n, if in decent shape what's it worth;
> you know, that kind of thing...
> --

sorry but meuser is not in the S/N book
give some info on this puppy and i will give you my opinion
for free no $25 fee

ap

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Dec 1996 00:30:19 GMT

>This worth a second look? Opinions?

If I were in the market for a lathe of this size I would surely have a
look at it.

Bill Rittner

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From: Tom Kruesel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:50:44 -0600

> ANOTHER school shop course bites the dust.
Jim;

My heart goes out to you!  I've been there.  What really hurts is that 
coming from a school, it probably didn't see a lot of use, and onlya 
bit of abuse!

Tom

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Davis)
Date: 7 Dec 1996 17:36:44 GMT

In article<[email-masked]>,ANDY POPKY<[email-masked]> writes:
-> Steve Davis wrote:
->>In article<[email-masked]>,ANDY POPKY<[email-masked]>writes:
->> -> check the s/n
->> -> if you give me the s/n i can tell you the age
->> -> if it is in halfway decent shape
->> -> then BUY IT
->> 
->> what about a Meuser 18" (26 with gap) by 84" lathe?
-> 
->WHAT ABOUT IT??

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From: ANDY POPKY <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:10:07 -0500

you beter turn off your computer
and go look at it
check the s/n
if you give me the s/n i can tell you the age 
if it is in halfway decent shape
then BUY IT 

regards
andy popky

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 21:05:06 -0800

> ANOTHER school shop course bites the dust.

  I wonder if it was the 13" Leblond from my old high school.
That thing took quite some abuse!  I should know <g>...
 Where was it?

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From: Fabo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 18:05:19 -0800

> > This worth a second look? Opinions?

This is a good illustration of the fact that there is no one as well 
informed as the misinformed.
You must be a reall know it all huh ?
[email-masked]
( from reminising my machine shop days fame)

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Waggener)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 20:43:28 GMT

>That thing took quite some abuse!  I should know <g>...

The lathe was in Hampton High School, Hampton VA.