Bought a Lathe for myself on my Wife's Birthday --- and Survived...barely

[BGHansen]

Because of that she decided to treat herself and spend the morning at a Spa getting a massage and manicure or whatever they do there.

I'm guessing she was chatting with the gals about what a great guy she married. "His hobby doesn't involve burning gasoline or have blond hair. He's home in the basement doing whatever it is he does down there with his tools. He isn't in the bar coming home with beer on his breath and glitter on his trousers. Whatever keeps him happy, I'm good with . . ." Or something like that.

Bruce

p.s. Congrats on finding a great deal.

 

[brino]

Wow, all that stuff!
That's thousands of dollars worth of accessories.

....and all I bought on Mothers Days was a heavy old band-saw to convert to metal cutting.

-brino

 

[Superburban]

Reminds me of my next door neighbor some years back. For Christmas he bought his wife a new outboard motor for his fishing boat.

Of course she liked it, saves her lots of rowing.

 

[GrizzlyBagWorks]

Here's a pic of what the lathe looked like when I saw it. Filthy of course, covered in "stuff". I'll post pictures when I'm done with the clean up. I'm in the process of completely breaking it down, cleaning and reassembling.

 

[hman]

Hmmmm ... rotary table atop the cross slide. Interesting possibilities for milling operations.

PS - You mentioned that most of the tools had been removed from the tool box when you looked at it. I guess your seller included all those tools in what he gave you along with the lathe. Congrats! Ya done good. Now go do something extra special for your wife.

 

[RobertHaas]

25 years ago I knew a guy that owned a Lathe/Mill that looked alot like this one. It had some interesting cutting tools that mounted in the chuck and then used the cross slide for x, and y was handled by the lathe's normal z. The guy that owned the one I saw built some interesting parts with it.

 

[Dabbler]

You need to see Stefan Gotteswinter's setup for his Enco lathe. Really impressive!

 

[rock_breaker]

Do you suppose you may have a surprise on your birthday? My wife has passed but she looked favorably on tools. She liked new shoes (the dressy type) and every so often I would trip over a pair I hadn't seen before. I think women taught elephants about memory.
Have a good day
Ray

 

[brino]

Hmmmm ... rotary table atop the cross slide. Interesting possibilities for milling operations.

I was thinking ball/radius/cove turning on the lathe.....
-brino

 

[MrWhoopee]

She’ll get over it.

She may appear to get over it, but in reality she has just put it in the bag with all the other times you've disappointed. You will be reminded, and more than once. By the time we divorced, I could recite all of them from memory.

My father once bought my mother an electric edger for mother's day.....