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06-18-2017, 01:43 PM
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My father's day treat to me.
A friend called me and made me aware of this lathe for sale at a garage sale. Absolutely mint condition. The poor fellow bought it and 2 years later passed away. His widow gave me such a great deal on it with 2 - 3 jaw chucks, a 4 jaw chuck, a face plate with several dogs, lots of never used tooling, change gears, etc. A nice addition to my smaller lathe/mill combo, the stock duplicator. This will now allow me to chamber heavy barrels. Can't wait to sit behind it to the wee hours of the morning.
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06-18-2017, 01:58 PM
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Wow nice score!
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06-18-2017, 02:09 PM
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Nice!
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06-18-2017, 02:20 PM
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Really nice. Looking forward to seeing what comes off it!
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06-18-2017, 02:49 PM
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I guess this means we may have to do a project.......lol
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06-18-2017, 02:59 PM
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I guess this means we may have to do a project.......lol
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You bet my friend. I'm always open to your suggestions and I love to work with you on any project in your mind as I know that you have good tastes.
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06-18-2017, 03:03 PM
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That will likely be something with a Bob Jury barrel. Probably a 6.5 Cm or a 6.5x47. But whatever it is, it will have a stock made of something absolutely striking.
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06-18-2017, 10:10 PM
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nice find
I run a Colchester lathe and a Bridgeport mill
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06-19-2017, 08:47 AM
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Sweet rig!
Been years since I touched one of those.
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06-19-2017, 01:24 PM
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nice find
I run a Colchester lathe and a Bridgeport mill
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Fine machines.
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06-19-2017, 03:15 PM
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Good to see even if I don't know what it is I'm seeing.
Your obviously stoked with your score. good on you. LOL.
Sometimes the best gifts, are the ones you get from yourself!
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06-19-2017, 03:56 PM
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Living the dream Gitr
My wife is a machinist and I don't have one of those!
"Shuuuuuuussssshhhhh.
You can't post stuff like that, too many heads will explode."
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06-19-2017, 07:39 PM
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That's a very nice gift on any day,right on.
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06-19-2017, 08:04 PM
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Very nice. I wish that I had a lathe myself.
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06-19-2017, 08:20 PM
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I have had the pleasure of running some nice lathes . Nardini , Clausing , southbend, Hyundai , colchester . It's tough to find equipment if that quality anymore
If anybody out there has one to sell I would be interested
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06-19-2017, 09:21 PM
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Nice find, its good to be lucky,
I hope to move my new to me lathe this week.
What is your make and model?
What is the yellow wheel near the left outboard end of the spindle?
Good Luck, YMMV.
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06-19-2017, 09:33 PM
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Nice find, always had an interest in them, never used one but amazes me what can be done.
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06-20-2017, 08:17 AM
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Nice find, its good to be lucky,
I hope to move my new to me lathe this week.
What is your make and model?
What is the yellow wheel near the left outboard end of the spindle?
Good Luck, YMMV.
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It's a Challenger TD-1440.
The yellow hand wheel is (I'm assuming) something that the previous owner made to manually turn the chuck. I plan to replace it with a 4 point spider collet. You can't see it in the picture, but I was happy to see that it also comes with a taper attachment.
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06-20-2017, 11:29 AM
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The yellow wheel might be a collet drawbar. Is there a collet set with it?
That lathe looks very similar to mine. First thing I did with mine was to mill the tool post to accept 5/8" tools. I believe they are set up for a metric tool shank. I can now run 5/8 tools without shimming to get center height.
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06-20-2017, 03:48 PM
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The yellow wheel might be a collet drawbar. Is there a collet set with it?
That lathe looks very similar to mine. First thing I did with mine was to mill the tool post to accept 5/8" tools. I believe they are set up for a metric tool shank. I can now run 5/8 tools without shimming to get center height.
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I don't know about these collets that you mention rembo. I do know what collets look like and didn't see anything of the sort. If the tool posts are metric, I'll mill them as you did as I prefer not having to shim.
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06-20-2017, 03:53 PM
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Wow, that lathe is mint! If you can't spoil yourself on Fathers Day, when can you spoil yourself?
Have fun with your new toy!
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06-20-2017, 06:37 PM
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Because of the fact that my friend and neighbour who already had offered to pick it up and bring it home is so busy with trucking cow/calf pairs to summer pasture, I checked with a local mover. I met him at the location so that he could review the job at hand.
First thing he does is try to lift the headstock end. I was waiting for him to blow a gasket. I told him "dude, that thing weights at least 800 lbs". He replied that he could bench press 800 lbs. Well, you ain't bench pressing this thing. Besides, his arms look like chop sticks.
So next, he tells me that he's going to wrap two chains around it to lift it. OK, I says...."you had me at chains". Have you watched episodes of Yukon Gold?. Every stupid F'up involves chains.....please go away.
I forgot to mention that buddy only had one healthy tooth in his upper jaw. It was a bit of a waste of time, but somewhat funny in some obscure way. LOL.
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06-20-2017, 06:40 PM
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Because of the fact that my friend and neighbour who already had offered to pick it up and bring it home is so busy with trucking cow/calf pairs to summer pasture, I checked with a local mover. I met him at the location so that he could review the job at hand.
First thing he does is try to lift the headstock end. I was waiting for him to blow a gasket. I told him "dude, that thing weights at least 800 lbs". He replied that he could bench press 800 lbs. Well, you ain't bench pressing this thing. Besides, his arms look like chop sticks.
So next, he tells me that he's going to wrap two chains around it to lift it. OK, I says...."you had me at chains". Have you watched episodes of Yukon Gold?. Every stupid F'up involves chains.....please go away.
I forgot to mention that buddy only had one healthy tooth in his upper jaw. It was a bit of a waste of time, but somewhat funny in some obscure way. LOL.
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lmao!
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06-20-2017, 08:07 PM
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I have those in my smaller lathe with a 36" bed. I've recently switched to buying a lot of my tooling to Grizzly state side.
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06-20-2017, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by gitrdun
Because of the fact that my friend and neighbour who already had offered to pick it up and bring it home is so busy with trucking cow/calf pairs to summer pasture, I checked with a local mover. I met him at the location so that he could review the job at hand.
First thing he does is try to lift the headstock end. I was waiting for him to blow a gasket. I told him "dude, that thing weights at least 800 lbs". He replied that he could bench press 800 lbs. Well, you ain't bench pressing this thing. Besides, his arms look like chop sticks.
So next, he tells me that he's going to wrap two chains around it to lift it. OK, I says...."you had me at chains". Have you watched episodes of Yukon Gold?. Every stupid F'up involves chains.....please go away.
I forgot to mention that buddy only had one healthy tooth in his upper jaw. It was a bit of a waste of time, but somewhat funny in some obscure way. LOL.
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IMHO, chains are (usually) the mark of ignorance.
I suspect your lathe is 11-1500 lbs.
Lathes are very top heavy with a relatively narrow base and are very unstable,
serious accidents are all too common,
many involve serious bodily injury or death and most have serious property damage.
There should be an approved lifting procedure in your owners manual.
NOT A JOB FOR A BUBBA, (or typical gitrdun farmer).
I am in a very similar situation, except my basic lathe is ~2,000 lbs striped.
I bought my newtome lathe in Edmonton and need to move it west of Calgary.
I spent 4 hours on the phone in Edmonton but could not find a reasonable price.
Many truckers seem to have sold their smaller trucks and pickers.
I have just put plates on my old flatdeck winch truck, and built a modular steel skid for loading and unloading.
Building the skid was a lot of work, (worth more than the trucking quote), but I had the steel (prior salvage), (and the time) and will still have the skid after the job is done.
I hope to do the move this week.
Good Luck, YMMV.
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06-24-2017, 06:52 PM
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We've measured the garage door opening to be 80". So I believe that we can move the skid steer inside of that. The move will be on Monday afternoon.
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06-24-2017, 07:10 PM
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Good luck with your move. You can never be too careful, when it comes to heavy objects.
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06-24-2017, 09:34 PM
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Thats how I got mine off the trailer and into the garage, skid steer then 2, pallet jacks to move around into position
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06-28-2017, 08:02 AM
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We got it home yesterday afternoon. No crushed fingers or toes, no incidents whatsoever. Careful planning, blocking, lifting. It took 2.5 hours to get it from it location to the garage door opening with a pallet jack so that we could make the final lift with the skid steer. From there, a half hour to get it on the trailer. Once at my home, because my floor is actually level, floated and smooth, a half hour to get it in place. We caused some attention from the residents in the High River neighborhood when backing a low-boy with a Peterbilt in the driveway.
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