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[V8Druid]

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that's the man and that's some of the kit he has for sale currently .... apparently bought it from some place in Lincoln closing down? phone numbers match and so does the pic of his truck lifting the radial drill he sold last night and the guillo he has

 

[V8Druid]

On another note...

that's the problem with buying one with the gap missing ... they're machined to fit each bed

 

[Lancs Lad]

OK guys .... opinions sought ...
Thomas @T whiting flagged up this the other night .....

HARRISON 17” SWING GAP BED LATHE | eBay

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have had a couple of conversations and he comes across well.

A deal has been negotiated with which I'm happy ... or I was 'til I looked at his feedback ... and some of his other stuff, sold previously .... waaaaaaaay too cheap and a certain buyer keeps cropping up on the too cheap items ... some of 'em are 10% of what they're worth ... was he building a feedback profile? or just a mate bidding?? been on there two years.

am now in a bit of a quandry ... the neg feedback he has (two) could just be a sour grapes job ... or could be genuine????
he's sold a couple of items off his current list of items listed and they too were a 'good' price .. as is this ... not cheap but not dear either .. have seen these making £6k ..... his listing is well populated with decent quality pix ... as are all his other listings

's a 400-450 mile round trip for me to eyeball ... and Pam'd go nuts if I mooted a trip to darkest Yorkshire

will have a further conversation and see how he wants to play 'the transaction' .... he's quoted me a delivered price, which is, as I say, acceptable ... I will also be needing a biz name/address, etc. from him as he professes to be a dealer .. his listings do support the claim ... but as said ... some of his previous prices are absurdly cheap ... if they're genuine i'm crying in me coffee here for the bargains missed
if he moots a C.O.D. job, I'll probably run with it
anyone's thoughts / opinions will be gratefully received

Looks legit and tidy to me.
Lot of these folk don't have mega feedback as they just use eBay to "advertise" anyone who ran a 2k machine through eBay fee system is crackers. You call em and do the deal the proper way .
Had a nice experience week or two back with gumtree , spotted a lovely Stihl 661 but looked a tad iffy. Got his number turned out was mate of a mate and straight as a die and was in my truck 2 hrs later minter so you can never tell till you get on the blower.

 

[T whiting]

It said 15 miles from me on eBay I can go have a poke on Saturday after a site visit I've got to do in the morning I'm not 100% at what I'd be looking at but I do have half a idea.

I wouldn't be overly worried about one negative feedback but like was said above I wouldn't be putting a £2000 purchase through ebay

 

[V8Druid]

cheers guys ... yeh no one pays £2+k's worth to fleabay .... will talk to the man again in the a.m. and get it squared away
and many thanks to Mr Mog, for his generous (as always) offer to assist in sorting it out.

 

[V8Druid]

little up date .... spoken with the seller a couple of times today ..... to sort a delivery ... no mention of money/payment, or wanting it up front ... offered him a deposit by BACS to 'show intent' but no ... C.O.D. is fine ... gives me confidence ... again comes across as a decent fella ... we'll see next Tuesday lunchtime, when John arrives with the lathe.

So big shout out to Thomas @T whiting for the flag up ... and as I said, Mr Mog too, for offering to inspect, pay for, collect and deliver to me, but he agreed, with the deal I'd sorted, he'd be hard pushed to see anything out of it ..... Next time Paul and thank you guys both

 

[T whiting]

little up date .... spoken with the seller a couple of times today ..... to sort a delivery ... no mention of money/payment, or wanting it up front ... offered him a deposit by BACS to 'show intent' but no ... C.O.D. is fine ... gives me confidence ... again comes across as a decent fella ... we'll see next Tuesday lunchtime, when John arrives with the lathe.

So big shout out to Thomas @T whiting for the flag up ... and as I said, Mr Mog too, for offering to inspect, pay for, collect and deliver to me, but he agreed, with the deal I'd sorted, he'd be hard pushed to see anything out of it ..... Next time Paul and thank you guys both
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No worries, it's a good job your not closer or I'd be over to borrow it.

I just hope I didn't miss out on the mill that says it sold for £250

 

[V8Druid]

No worries, it's a good job your not closer or I'd be over to borrow it.

I just hope I didn't miss out on the mill that says it sold for £250

worse than that he had a Kingsland 55t punch that supposedly sold for Ca. 5% of it's worth at 250 quid ...... gutted ... I'll ask him when he's here what they did sell for ... can see it being some sort of 'cover story' for ebay to keep 'em sweet/onside for his advertising .... seems to get some interesting stuff and will be going in my saved sellers/searches lists ...... his press table is winking at me too ... the ram's a bit of a joke on it currently, but the frame'd cost a few bob to build .... make a nice press/splitter with a few mods

 

[V8Druid]

BUSES !!!!!!!

"1016 mm Between Centres. Max Swing 432 mm. Spindle Bore 82.5 mm. Drilling attachment. 3 Way Toolpost "

DEAN SMITH & GRACE Type 1709 x 40" Straight Bed Lathe with Newall Topaz Digital Readout

 

[Jimoz]

cheaper/better? @V8Druid

 

[Lancs Lad]

little up date .... spoken with the seller a couple of times today ..... to sort a delivery ... no mention of money/payment, or wanting it up front ... offered him a deposit by BACS to 'show intent' but no ... C.O.D. is fine ... gives me confidence ... again comes across as a decent fella ... we'll see next Tuesday lunchtime, when John arrives with the lathe.

So big shout out to Thomas @T whiting for the flag up ... and as I said, Mr Mog too, for offering to inspect, pay for, collect and deliver to me, but he agreed, with the deal I'd sorted, he'd be hard pushed to see anything out of it ..... Next time Paul and thank you guys both
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Crying out for some shiny tish
But what's the plan? Wouldn't fancy slinging that into a box?

 

[T whiting]

worse than that he had a Kingsland 55t punch that supposedly sold for Ca. 5% of it's worth at 250 quid ...... gutted ... I'll ask him when he's here what they did sell for ... can see it being some sort of 'cover story' for ebay to keep 'em sweet/onside for his advertising .... seems to get some interesting stuff and will be going in my saved sellers/searches lists ...... his press table is winking at me too ... the ram's a bit of a joke on it currently, but the frame'd cost a few bob to build .... make a nice press/splitter with a few mods

Yes but Ive no real use for one not that I really have use for a vertical mill it would probably just sit rusting in the workshop

 

[V8Druid]

cheaper/better? @V8Druid

It's a D, S & G Jim ..... they don't come any better ...... had a similar model type 17, but smaller mandrel for a couple of years ... so accurate and a pleasure to use .... I will be very surprised if that doesn't make £2+K .... and will be watching it ... in case ... it's a beaut and a bigger mandrel

 

[V8Druid]

Yes but Ive no real use for one not that I really have use for a vertical mill it would probably just sit rusting in the workshop

a 55t punch for 250 quid is the stuff of dreams Thomas ...
my 115XS Kingsland cost me £15k in the mid 90s ... admittedly a universal metalworker ... but 250 quid FFS

 

[V8Druid]

Crying out for some shiny tish
But what's the plan? Wouldn't fancy slinging that into a box?

a major job to repaint a machine tool and have it look right ... lots of filling and fettling, once they get chipped ... I like to see them in their working clothes LL
the plan is hoik it off the lorry on the hook and sit it outside a box, stick the forks on and find the COG with a hook off a lift bar on two closely spaced forks and lift it into the space i've made for it in the box ...fork tips or just short of them should cope with 2.25t ... just... otherwise .. lift it 2/3rds the way in ... skates under the tailstock end and lift the headstock end in with the forks and a couple of slings on the lift lugs and either 'rocker' it off the skate on pivot blocks at the tail end or just toe jack it down .. pretty sure it'll lift in OK TBH

that'll test the QH/forks theories ... but with the safety pin in, you'd have to gas it out

 

[V8Druid]

another from the same auction I shall be watching very closely .......

GEKA Hydracrop 100 Hydraulic Steelworker

 

[T whiting]

a major job to repaint a machine tool and have it look right ... lots of filling and fettling, once they get chipped ... I like to see them in their working clothes LL
the plan is hoik it off the lorry on the hook and sit it outside a box, stick the forks on and find the COG with a hook off a lift bar on two closely spaced forks and lift it into the space i've made for it in the box ...fork tips or just short of them should cope with 2.25t ... just... otherwise .. lift it 2/3rds the way in ... skates under the tailstock end and lift the headstock end in with the forks and a couple of slings on the lift lugs and either 'rocker' it off the skate on pivot blocks at the tail end or just toe jack it down .. pretty sure it'll lift in OK TBH

Once you've seen a transformer lifted into a substation you realise how heavy things can be moved with no headroom.

If it's only going just inside a door it should be easy enough

 

[Lancs Lad]

a major job to repaint a machine tool and have it look right ... lots of filling and fettling, once they get chipped ... I like to see them in their working clothes LL
the plan is hoik it off the lorry on the hook and sit it outside a box, stick the forks on and find the COG with a hook off a lift bar on two closely spaced forks and lift it into the space i've made for it in the box ...fork tips or just short of them should cope with 2.25t ... just... otherwise .. lift it 2/3rds the way in ... skates under the tailstock end and lift the headstock end in with the forks and a couple of slings on the lift lugs and either 'rocker' it off the skate on pivot blocks at the tail end or just toe jack it down .. pretty sure it'll lift in OK TBH

that'll test the QH/forks theories ... but with the safety pin in, you'd have to gas it out

Time you got a shed up

 

[V8Druid]

Once you've seen a transformer lifted into a substation you realise how heavy things can be moved with no headroom.

If it's only going just inside a door it should be easy enough

amazing what you can shift with skates and jacks

put this into my workshop many years ago ... 32 ton .. tandem lift off in the yard at the doorway with two of my 25 tonners ... and skated it about 70 ft into position .... the front apron was 3+ ft in the floor ...

14ft tall, 12ft long and 8ft deep .. front apron was 5t ...

took it apart to get it out when I cleared my yard in '14

held the 'machinery deck' with the 4t Hyster while i took the end frames away

had a bit of help from me mate Doug - Monaro man - had a stroke 'bout two years ago and never recovered properly

made those particular skates for a job shifting a load of 14t Stehoj presses for a company i did a lot of machinery shifting and installation for

was half a ton of hydraulic in it .... worth more in the skip than as a machine ... transporting it anywhere, as a lump, killed the value

would bend 12ft of 1/2" plate into anything up to a right angle , 8ft of 16mm plate and/or 5 ft of 20mm plate .... 320 tons pressure

 

[V8Druid]

Time you got a shed up

aye .. it's getting closer