An exercise in old machine costing.

[Boostinjdm]

Just a question of is it still capable of doing decent work. If it is,I hate to see a machine scrapped.

That pretty much sums up my feelings as well.

[oldtiffie]

At the end of the day, all the regrets, advice and sentiment are perhaps nice to have and say but the decision to scrap it is going ahead anyway.

I can imagine that it might upset some but that may be for no good purpose as it will do nobody any good.

[John Stevenson]

Tis a pity you are not in this area John, lathes like you have got would sell for more then the scrap man....

Saw a rooted 16" Victor sell for AU$2500 (~US$2700) a year or so back....

A SN50 in good order(I assume yours is an SN50) would sell easily here in this mining boom area..

I can fully understand this and that's what is probably clouding some of the views.
Long short is that over here they are worth nothing if they won't fit in a small garage.
Tim scrapped his TOS and will probably end up scrapping the spare DSG he has for the same reasons as me.

I gave £1500 for this machine 15 odd years ago, It's been a decent machine and doesn't owe me anything. One fault it does have is in facing off it leaves regular bands of raised metal about 3/8" wide.
A bit like castle battlements and probably 10 thou deep.
So no good for facing flywheels etc
I thought it was something to do with the power feed, loose keys playing catch up but it does the same thing under manual moves.

Never bothered me as it only works on shafts and bores and to be honest I'm not that interested / motivated into finding out why.

The whole purpose of this post was to show how pricing has changed over the last few years in that money can be made at the moment just buying items to scrap, any items as shown by the filing cabinet example.

[Rosco-P]

At the end of the day, all the regrets, advice and sentiment are perhaps nice to have and say but the decision to scrap it is going ahead anyway.

I can imagine that it might upset some but that may be for no good purpose as it will do nobody any good.

Have you been appointed as John Stevenson's mouthpiece?

When your day comes, are we to believe that several thousand AUD of new looking grinding equipment (that you displayed in your shop) will be tossed in the re-cycle bin?

[sasquatch]

Yup, probably will be just tossed, gone to the scrappers,, so,,, NO ONE will ever get it.

Lots of flags popping up here, that are showing some underlying stability problems in ones thinking.

[oldtiffie]

Originally Posted by oldtiffie

At the end of the day, all the regrets, advice and sentiment are perhaps nice to have and say but the decision to scrap it is going ahead anyway.

I can imagine that it might upset some but that may be for no good purpose as it will do nobody any good.

Have you been appointed as John Stevenson's mouthpiece?

When your day comes, are we to believe that several thousand AUD of new looking grinding equipment (that you displayed in your shop) will be tossed in the re-cycle bin?

1 - definitely no - and I am not.

2 - definitely yes - the lot - not just the grinders.

[John Stevenson]

1 - definitely no - and I am not.

2 - definitely yes - the lot - not just the grinders.

Don't forget to throw all the posed pictures at the same time.

[Limy Sami]

Strikes me as a straightforward business decision, the machine has served it's time, earnt it's keep and by Johns admission far from being in the ''first flush.''

<>£1000 scrap and it cost £1500 15 years back? - £33.33 / year** for a lathe that size ain't bad going.

** Without the tax write off

[oldtiffie]

Originally Posted by Rosco-P

Have you been appointed as John Stevenson's mouthpiece?

When your day comes, are we to believe that several thousand AUD of new looking grinding equipment (that you displayed in your shop) will be tossed in the re-cycle bin?

Originally Posted by oldtiffie

1 - definitely no - and I am not.

2 - definitely yes - the lot - not just the grinders.

Don't forget to throw all the posed pictures at the same time.

Nope.

I'm keeping all those pics of "what is" to go with the "what was" when its all in the "bin" - just to remind the sticky beaks and do-gooders et al that they don't have any say in what I do or don't do with my stuff.

I can believe it and certainly don't like it that so many seem to think that they have the right and entitlement to intefere in what others do or don't do with their own property (tools and machines).

Perhaps saying what they think is OK mostly but saying what to do or not do with that "stuff" is quite another - and being forceful and/or insistent as if it is or should be their own is just ignorant and plain arrogant (to put it politely).

If those pics "get up their singular and collective noses" - all the more reason to keep those pics.

If it drives them nuts? - or rather they drive themselves nuts over it?

It won't get better than that.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+up+nose

But as its mainly "Chinese" and "everyone knows" that "Chinese stuff is no good at all to no one at all", I can't see what all the bother is about, and if thats so I'm doing them a favour by saving them from themselves and a "fair maidens" fate worse than death.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/134650.html

Sort of.

[John Stevenson]

If you don't use the machines, have no interest in using them, then why do you bother visiting this forum ?

You are getting more like a troll every day.