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Thanks Mike; Both the wife and I are looking forward to the move.
I was thinking of putting the lathe at your house!!!!
Come on over and get it Mike, I don't want to move it.
Free to you Mike, got an extra motor and a small box of stuff with it.
If you want it though you better move, because I got it in the St. Pete paper.
Just PM me and I'll give you my address.

I've seen that lathe, it is very cool.............and HEAVY! Those lathes from that era were bulletproof.

Don

I'd have to agree with the bullet proof, Don
And extra extra heavy cold steel Lathe. HE! HE! HE!
Them flat bed tow trucks pull it right up on the bed.
But it has to be muscled to the door of the shop with floor jacks first.
Got Muscle.
Kurt

Kurt, PM sent, thanks for the offer.

Mike

Well my Metal Lathe is still up for grabs to anyone on club Hot rod that wants to haul it away for free. I did find out something new that I did not know though.
I was told when I bought it that it was a 1930's Regal Le Blond Metal Lathe.
I had a collecter that called me and said he wanted some photo's so I sent him a video.
He said it was a Regal Le Blond Metal Lathe but the year was wrong that he has one just like it, and it is a 1865 Metal Lathe not a 1930's like I thought. He said he could tell from the shape of the legs under it. I was watching a movie the other night and they were talking about Lincoln being President in 1862 and the first thing I thought of was my lathe has been around since Lincoln was around, WOW
What would we see if we followed that thing back thru time to when it was made and where it has been thru all the years. It will make you think!!!
Kurt

That's amazing, Kurt. If that thing could talk. Is it something collectors seek out?

Don

I don't know since he already had one he restore to like new condition he didn't want mine. So Don when are you and Dan coming to get it. HE! HE! HE!
You know you got room for it in your shop.
Kurt

Wow Kurt wished you lived a little closer!

If no one from the club comes to get it, I'll be hauling it to vegas with me.
Kurt

Good..................then you can drop it at my place.

Thats a little north of where I am going there Bob!!! HE! HE! HE!
I'll be down there on I 10.
Kurt

Kurt, I think I told you this story, but when I worked at the marina there was this huge lathe in the machine room and it only got used occasionally. They were revamping the place and they offered it to me for free. I looked and looked at it, but the thing was so big our forklift did a reverse wheelie when they picked it up to move it! I had to pass because it would have taken up so much room in the shop, plus none of us know how to use one.

I found out it had come off of a WWII battleship and I guess was a really good piece of equipment, but it was just not for us. The other thing was I worried about one of us getting seriously hurt by it.........we are dangerous enough with a 4 inch grinder.

Don

HE! HE! HE! I hear ya Don I was just yanking your chain one more time!!!
I can hurt myself with a tooth brush, Had my arm crush in a ringer when I was 3.
Spent the next year under going operations and skin grafts for the damage it did.
I have heard some bad stories about people getting their cloths cot in a lathe and
rip off arms and stuff. I knew a guy that had long hair in a brade and it fell in to a lathe while he was working on something and lost his whole scalp to it. But atleast I don't have to worry about my hair falling in to anything, my indian wife already scalped me a few times. I am gonna beef up the top of my trailer with steel plate and hual it out, if no one wants it from the club around here. I was told it weighs about 3,500 and was trying
to figure out what I would tow with the U haul the Vette or the machine. I guess it will be the machine, it ain't as aero dynamic as the Vette is, plus the Vette weighs about 3,500 too so it's about even on the weight. I thought that the Vette's were lighter then that. Kurt

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

I had to pass because it would have taken up so much room in the shop.
Don

That's the same reason I had to decline Kurt's very generous offer. I'm trying to work on my car in 2-car garage that's already packed full, I don't have room for a 12' lathe.

Mike

I've got a freinds son who is a machinist comming to look at it tomorrow.
He's got a big shop and has room for it, he's just got to look to see if it's something he wants or not. His dad has been a good freind to me for the last 3 or 4 years since we met. Probably the best electrical car guy I have ever met and is great with installing fuel injection systems on older cars and trucks. He's the one that put the fuel injection in my 1970 short bed pick up. He's got two more in his yard right now that he is building. He has the one down to the frame and has already installed the 89 fuel injection motor from a 89 Lincoln and just like mine he did you touch the key and it start right up.
77 years old and he's still going strong and lives to install fuel injection systems in older cars.