That said, the repaint is always something to consider. Given the tooling, it seems like a pretty good price.
Usually auction machines have tooling striped off, and it certainly is feasibly that the gear either had been removed or had been swiped by someone along the way.īest of luck with the sale. This particular machine looks to be well tooled so I'm guessing the owner would disclose the lack of the 127 tooth gear, but it is good to verify. So, it is important to remember to check for that gear as it is incredibly expensive. In the end, the metric selector (the second handle on the box) does nothing more than switch in and out that 127 tooth gear. In that case, you'd still use the gearbox and change gears. Normally that would be left in place, but the gearbox is there for those that have some oddball size that they want to cut, the gearing for which couldn't be found on the selector. Inside the gearbox you *must* have a 127 tooth gear. The reason, of course, is that the DRO axis provided positional information for those. Both the cross and apron feeds only had a "normal" dial with a single unit. This, by the way, is why there was generally (maybe always) a DRO sold with the machines. One of the interesting things about the lathe is that the compound and tailstock have a planetary gear setup in it so that you can directly read inch or metric (two different dials that run at different speeds) travel. This allowed me to put a shelf in there so that I could store more tooling. It looks to be well tooled and one of the nice things (at least on mine) is that I could raise the lower collet tray. I am actually surprised the owners didn't put a DRO on it, but that is fine. This machine being sole here has been repainted and typically was originally fitted with an Accurite DRO. I fell into one a long time ago when I had some (a lot) of play money that was going to be reallocated if I didn't spend it.