What Did You Buy Today?

Its a sickness...

I brought home another Hendey this afternoon... it is a 14x6, serial number 23676. I'm guessing maybe early 1920's?

It seems to be in pretty good condition mechanically, there is one gear with one broken tooth, (I haven't dug into it to check all of the gears yet, though) but it came with about 6 extra gears and one of the extras is identical to the broken one. The tailstock handwheel has been broken and brazed, it is functional, but not pretty, and the crossfeed handle has been replaced with a non-original handwheel.

It is not a very nice looking lathe... the seller bought it out of a barn. He said at some point in its history, it had been painted with latex housepaint. He removed all the latex, but didn't get around to repainting it.

The spindle turns very smooth and tight, and all the feeds work well. It came with a 2 hp 2 speed 230v 3 phase motor and a Turner Uni-Drive 4 speed transmission which all works as it should.

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This may be my 'winter project'... teardown, clean, paint, repair, and reassembly... it looks like I'll be busy.

Mr. Whoopee is keeping me busy with his Craigslist ad posts!

-Bear
 
Today, I realized I have 14 jack stands. I'm going to have to think about that for a sec.
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OOPS! I thought I was in the what did you do in your shop today thread. I bought all these at some point, just not today.
 
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@682bear - That's a mighty stout looking set of gears! And a HUGE tool post!!! Hope you're able find a nice couple of matching handwheels for the cross slide and tailstock. Too bad about the "missing tooth" on the quick change gear box ... probably not a functional issue, but it just looks odd ... and difficult to repair.
 
Picked up this Mitutoyo 1"-2" digital mechanical micrometer. Looks like it is great shape. $60. It will compliment the 0"-1" Mitutoyo that I already have.
 

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On a different auction I picked up a small Jet shaper. I have been wanting one for quite some time but the right opportunity never came up. There was a similar Grizzly shaper that sold on an auction earlier this year for more new. Crazy...
So the equivalent Grizzly is about $750 plus shipping. The Jet model is $1300-$1400 for the model I bought. I paid $305 at the auction. The auction pictures had just the shaper pictured. I really wanted a 1/2" router collet so that I could run all of my 1/2" shank router bits in it. Much to my surprise, there was a box included with the shaper that was not in the auction pictures. It had both 1/4" & 1/2" collets, along with a 3/4" arbor. Some extra cutters and all the original accessories, even the original manual. Yippeeee! I was super happy. Oh, also had a mobile base, but I will probably build a custom one for it. I don't like those universal bases.
 

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It is not sexy, but it was needed. I got a 40 foot 8 gauge 3 conductor extension cord.
The Seller is BougeRV, but don't let the name fool you; it is based out of China.

It remains to be seen if it is really as heavy as 8 gauge.
 

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