When I bought my 9" C, they sent me an underneath drive unit instead of the horizontal one I needed. I finally got the HD unit from the seller (a company in Bristol CN) after several months of frustration. I still have the under drive motor mount plate, cone pulley, two step motor pulley, shaft (very worn but could be turned down and sleeved) and lock rings. If someone can use any or all, they are available. Make me an offer. Glen Reeser Jewellers Lathe Clisby Sherline 9" C SB 9" A SB --- In southbendlathe@y..., Thomas.G.Brandl@c... wrote:
Much of this has to do with the value of the item. At what point do
you cannibalize something? If you can get more for the parts readily than selling the whole piece, then that might be the dividing line. Obviously, with our lathes, we could part out them for more money than what the
complete machine is worth. But, could we sell all of the pieces in a short amount of time? I've seen on e-bay recently, a lot of parts to what I would believe to have been near complete machines. In one sense, it a shame that they got parted out. To the seller, it probably would have cost them more to get the other parts, than the complete lathe would have sold for. Or at least seriously cut into his profit. If we look at extremely high dollar autos i.e. rare Ferraris, Jags, Ford GT-40's etc. They are rebuilt if they only have tittle to their vin number. Basically a replica that's legit. I'm afraid our lathes, however dear to us, aren't in that category.
Here's another aspect: when do we sell our spare parts or hoard them? Do we keep them in the hope that one day we might need that lead screw etc. for some machine we don't have? Right now I have the base plate to a
horizontal 9inch drive unit and the belt cone. (I do need a horizontal drive unit.) Also, a feed screw to a milling attachment and maybe the clamp screws to it (but nothing else). I would sell or trade these out if I had what I needed. People keep out bidding me in the last few minute on E-bay. I hate it when I loose something by $1. (I did get a bunch of 6K metric collets for cheap though.) At this point there is the large casting for a horizontal drive unit on e-bay. So I might need the base. I would still need the large pulley and shaft though. The shaft could be made. Do we create/compound this problem by hoarding these parts?
Bilal Hassan <900driver@m...> on 10/01/2001 07:38:27 PM
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Jordan,
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I have been cannibalizing various cars and appliances since I was ten years old...much to the chagrin of my parents! :-) When I was fourteen years old, and my father managed to get sideswiped by a bus, his car was sporting multicoloured body panels until it died many years later (junkyard donor cars). I have cannibalized so many microwaves and washing machines for their motors and controller boards that I've lost count (rich relatives discarding them as "trash." ). I will hopefully be using some of these motors and controller boards in the upcoming ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Student (I am secretary of the student chapter at my university) competition, where we have to build a baseball-pitching machine capable of a high degree of repeatibility at pitching balls into a target.
Regards,
Bilal Hassan
Mechanical Engineering major,
Materials Store Operator &
part-time Machinist.
Department of Physics,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
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From: Jordan
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [southbendlathe] wazzup with this frenzy?
That's an interesting quandary - whether to cannabilize a lathe (or a car,
clock, radio, whatever) and make available original spares to keep
better examples going. Or, to try and restore every last existing
example,
thereby creating a scarcity of parts, driving up costs, perhaps making them too precious to use?
gmcelhaney@b... wrote:
gotta quit cannibalizing these and start saving them - they are
real piece of american heritage
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