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BuckeyeDennis wrote:And if I had any space in my workshop, I'd buy it too! But someone very wise (most likely on this site) once said: "The most important tool in in your shop is enough room to work".

As for me, I need either more wisdom, or more time to clear old stuff out!

Guess I am not wise! I need more room to work!:D That is why I do much outdoors!;)

For all you vintage machinery buffs, here's a nice "Shop Smith" lathe on Craigslist for only 50 bucks:

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A 5E, maybe?

Actually, the castings look pretty beefy, and that appears to be a good-sized motor. It might not be a bad machine.



Styling by Flash Gordon.




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I would so pay $50 for that if it were local!

heathicus wrote:I would so pay $50 for that if it were local!

Me Too!!!!!!;)

Dang it guys, you are sorely tempting me to buy this sucker. But I just spent three hours last weekend redoing my shop layout in Visio, figuring out how to fit in yet another Dewalt radial arm saw. 1963 vintage, 14", 3hp this time, for the princely sum of $150. What can you cut with it? Anything you want! The light bulb finally came on when I realized that the table of a radial arm saw is ... another worktable!

But fitting the Flash Gordon lathe into the shop would mean displacing my "new" 10ER, which is destined for lathe and drill-press duty. I do still have one small nook where it could be used as a wall-mounted drill press. But that would be almost criminal, as it has a near-pristine original bench with factory legs and casters.

Maybe I can convince my good neighbor friend to buy it, and let me come over to play sometimes ...

Craig's list don't have many Shopsmiths try searching Shop Smith

lightnin wrote:Craig's list don't have many Shopsmiths try searching Shop Smith

Amen! That's where the best bargains are to be found.

And many are mispriced in the opposite direction ... those hang around a whole lot longer.