12" LeBlond Regal

[Old Iron]

This mite follow me home Saturday morming the price is right and its only about 20 miles away.

It was gotten at a Goverment sale and never taken off the skid, Jus set in a shop and left there.

It does have some surface rust and I'm taking my scraper along to see how bad it really is. I enlarged the pictures and the compound looks like it was never hit by the chuck.

The problem is where to put it, Something will have to go but what? Its hard to give up one of your machines.

Paul

 

[David]

I hope it does follow you Paul! That looks like it would make a nice lathe when cleaned up.

 

[joe_m]

Nice score. I've got the 13x30 regal. Leblond was conservative in measuring their swing - mine actually goes about 14.5 - so your 12 might hit 13 or so.
There's a yahoo group for the Leblond - if you check it out you might find some good info - there's at least a couple of manuals available.

 

[Old Iron]

Thanks Joe I'll do that.

Paul

 

[Old Iron]

The guy said it was a 12" how ever the tag saids 13", I had to do some work to that picture to see it. So thats even better.

Thanks Geno but if-n I get it it mite should stay close to home.:biggrin:

Paul

 

[Old Iron]

Re: 13" LeBlond Regal

Well I got it home this morning, The rust comes right off with some WD-40 and some fine steel wool. It is a 13" and the seral number is B11573.

Now I've got to figure out what to do with the 10" Clausing I have.

Paul

 

[ScrapMetal]

Just a "heads up" for you LeBlond guys. There is a 13" LeBlond that showed up on last night's CL in the Omaha, NE area: http://omaha.craigslist.org/tls/3052230279.html No picture and very little information so there's no telling exactly what it is or what kind of shape.

-Ron

 

[Old Iron]

Geno right now I'm just going to clean it up and give it a workout, Make sure every thing is ok and then paint it.

Paul

 

[Old Iron]

Thanks Geno I've used some of there paint but not the spray can stuff, I'll give it a try.

Paul