Carl Wilson
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Such a shame to see machines in that condition.
Such a shame to see machines in that condition.
It is but at least they still exist. The amount of perfectly servicable machinery that gets skipped because owners or companies can't be bothered selling it or their health and safety policy forbids it is frightening.
It is but at least they still exist. The amount of perfectly servicable machinery that gets skipped because owners or companies can't be bothered selling it or their health and safety policy forbids it is frightening.
Been looking for a Holbrook 17 for a long while.....Yep, and big organisations won't sell to staff either, a Deckel and a Holbrook H17 went to the dealers for way less than I'd have paid, "Elfin Safety", "Liar ability" and all that - yes, I was fuming...
Dave H. (the other one)
Yep, and big organisations won't sell to staff either, a Deckel and a Holbrook H17 went to the dealers for way less than I'd have paid, "Elfin Safety", "Liar ability" and all that - yes, I was fuming...
Dave H. (the other one)
I've been trying to get the Harrison m300 that's at my dad's work for a while now. Not been plugged in or used for years but because it's a government funded mob, it's all the same Jabberwocky.
Sadly I fear it will end up in the skip.
Thanks, if it does get broken I will happily pay a fair price for the overarm.@minimutly - got one of these myself. The mill is too far gone IMHO to be saved, the problem you will have is even after massive amounts of cleaning the ways will be pitted from the rust so you will then be into a lot of scraping to try and get them flat. Also the amount of work needed to get the table, cross slides, mics etc cleaned up will just be to much to be worth it.
You do see clean ones of these come up every so often for not daft money so I would look out for one of those. As a thought though, some of the bits on that might be saleable, I would defo be interested in the vertical head and I know @Rannsachair picked a nice one up in the spring that was missing the overarm.
If you can get it for scrap value then you could probably sell a few of those parts even in the condition they are in for a few quid and make some money towards getting a clean one?
Cheers,
MM
30 years ago there wasn't a manual machine tool to be had. guys were paid to go to all the auctions and buy every decent machine to be had from bankrupt firms or surplus they were all shipped out to china . a lot of our engineers and machinists went over and set them up and taught the Chinese how to use them . just look now how far they have advanced producing there own stuff originally copying our stuffA friend of mine who was in CNC for many years told me that a huge amount of manual machines of the vintage we are talking about are going overseas.
30 years ago there wasn't a manual machine tool to be had. guys were paid to go to all the auctions and buy every decent machine to be had from bankrupt firms or surplus they were all shipped out to china . a lot of our engineers and machinists went over and set them up and taught the Chinese how to use them . just look now how far they have advanced producing there own stuff originally copying our stuff