Dalton Six, Redding, CA, $550

What’s up with this missing gears? This is the second old lathe in a row. To my mind they are worthless without those gears. Do you think they bought those lathes and took the gears to get their real lathe going then are flipping them?
 
I would not say worthless, but certainly worth less, perhaps much less.
 
You have to wonder where the gears go. It seems lots of lathes get sold without them.
 
Nogoingback said:
It seems lots of lathes get sold without them.
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They do? This is the first ones I’ve paid attention to. I can see missing the change gears, but the gears and banjo? What up with that?
 
Nogoingback said:
You have to wonder where the gears go. It seems lots of lathes get sold without them.
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The lathe gets sold by someone who is not knowledgeable. The loose parts end up in a box of orphans. Much like 3-jaw chucks with two sets of jaws.
 
MrWhoopee said:
The lathe gets sold by someone who is not knowledgeable. The loose parts end up in a box of orphans. Much like 3-jaw chucks with two sets of jaws.
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That‘s one plausible scenario. I guess my caution going into an area I know little about(also not made of $$)makes me not understand how somebody with no clue buys something as complicated as a lathe and tears it apart. Then expects to get what they paid for it as a basket case. Or sells it for less to somebody who buys a basket case only to find its missing crucial parts.

I could see how somebody who has lots of experience with making gears doesn’t think this is that big a deal. I learned in high school to stay away from basket cases and never buy anything I don’t have a lot of experience with that’s just “missing a few parts”. Maybe if I had one of those lathes and they had parts I was missing I’d be interested in them.
 
C-Bag said:
That‘s one plausible scenario. I guess my caution going into an area I know little about(also not made of $$)makes me not understand how somebody with no clue buys something as complicated as a lathe and tears it apart. Then expects to get what they paid for it as a basket case. Or sells it for less to somebody who buys a basket case only to find its missing crucial parts.

I could see how somebody who has lots of experience with making gears doesn’t think this is that big a deal. I learned in high school to stay away from basket cases and never buy anything I don’t have a lot of experience with that’s just “missing a few parts”. Maybe if I had one of those lathes and they had parts I was missing I’d be interested in them.
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This is also a 1920s lathe, so it has had 90+ years to lose those parts. 7x16 so it is competing with Chinese mini-lathes, Atlas / Craftsman 6x18 etc where power feed and the ability to thread may not be as much of an expectation for many users.

I think it is an early B-4, which makes it late teens to early 1920s.

It is a small lathe so falls into my area of obsession, if the price drops to $200 I may be driving to Redding just because it is kind of neat. I may have a problem. ;)

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Aaron_W said:
It is a small lathe so falls into my area of obsession, if the price drops to $200 I may be driving to Redding just because it is kind of neat. I may have a problem. ;)

Dalton lathes
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I don't think you can get to Redding from Ukiah.
 
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