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I have to sell one of these lathes for someone who can no longer safely use it. Because I have no lathe experience of any kind (metal or wood) someone on rec.ww suggested I post here. Ihave someone interested but I need to set a fair price based on the following:

Myford ML-7 Lathe - 1/3hp motor-36" bed live center with 7 points (BusyBee) Drill chuck arbor-Mod.B460-MT#2 Machine vise-Myford MA71- + two 3"circ blades(1/8"x1 & 1/64"x1) Fixed steady-Myford 1412 Rear tool post-Myford 1468 Chuck-3 jaw(2 types of jaws)-Burnerd 1580-01005-Iron Body-England Lt.Duty Independant Chuck-4 jaw-6"-Pratt-Burnerd-#1548-16130-Rev.hard jaws
-Iron body-Mounting Myford 34M Faceplates-4" - 4-1/2" - 7" Vertical Slide Swivelling-Myford-68/2 12 pc. cutter set-Myford-unused 8 pc. gear set-30,35,38,40,45,50,55,70 Box of various-tool rest,screw pt.center-MT

This equipment is in excellent shape based on appearance and how meticulous this person kept his shop. I thought about buying this stuff for myself and using it as a woodworking lathe as I want to get into some lathe work, but I was told by the person who is interested in buying it to do some metal-turning that it would wreck the lathe in short order (don't know if some of that is because he is interested in it himself). Instead I will buy his UNIMAT DB-200 lathe and do some pens/pencils turning (the buyer said the same about not using this lathe for woodturning either but I found the owners manual & it shows how to do wood turning-hope I don't regret it).

The owner of this equip. used it for repairing and making clocks as a hobby.

Any ideas on pricing this stuff would be greatly appreciated as the person is moving into a seniors home shortly


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A metal turning lathe really is quite unsuitable for anything but very occasional wood turning. The two machines are quite different.

Moreover, a wood turning lathe is much simpler than a metal turning lathe, so you will get much more machine for your money.

Or buy one of the metal lathes and cut metal.

I cannot really advise on the price of a second hand ML-7, other than to suggest you buy some mags. and look at the classified adverts. You should also find out how much the same kit would be new.

 


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