Well Ivan the Terrible has come to a sticky end, after 5 years of sitting there unloved and unused and finishing up as a shelf for rubbish and bit to be piled onto it I decided to sort it out.
It's a 10" swing by 20" BC Russian toolroom lathe with 3 Hp motor and 24 speed preselector box. Unfortunately it's an orphan, no makers name plate and no details at all, Very well built, it weights two tonnes which isn't bad for a south bend sized machine.
Getting it out from where it was in one lump for resale would have been very hard, my forklift can't manage this and the two I can borrow from across the road are too wide for access so resale it going to be a problem especially with the history thrown in, so the decision was made to scrap it.
Heavy is about £150 per tonne at the moment but this will class as oversize and won't fetch the same. So it got pulled to pieces in big lumps. Got the base and bed in the Donald at the moment ready for a trip first thing Monday followed by a pallet of headstock, gearbox, apron, screwcutting box and a laod more bits.
No pics, to dark but if I remember I'll post tomorrow.
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It's a 10" swing by 20" BC Russian toolroom lathe with 3 Hp motor and 24 speed preselector box. Unfortunately it's an orphan, no makers name plate and no details at all, Very well built, it weights two tonnes which isn't bad for a south bend sized machine.
Getting it out from where it was in one lump for resale would have been very hard, my forklift can't manage this and the two I can borrow from across the road are too wide for access so resale it going to be a problem especially with the history thrown in, so the decision was made to scrap it.
Heavy is about £150 per tonne at the moment but this will class as oversize and won't fetch the same. So it got pulled to pieces in big lumps. Got the base and bed in the Donald at the moment ready for a trip first thing Monday followed by a pallet of headstock, gearbox, apron, screwcutting box and a laod more bits.
No pics, to dark but if I remember I'll post tomorrow.
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