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vonz33

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Hi there,

The old man in the factory next door to ours wants to sell some of his equipment to make some space in his lair. I am not a steel engineer so I only have a rough idea of what these do but if you guys want to have a peak at these shots and eventually give us a clue on if eventually tese would still have any value for anybody, that would help us to optimize our time doing research.

I appreciate this old man and I am facinated by the quality of this gear that seems indestructible, so I told him I'd help :)


To admins: This is not a sales post only asking for advice, these machines will be up for sale on a proper sales portal. Thank you.
 
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Wonderful stuff. Nowadays, museum pieces for all practical purposes, but someone could get a ton of enjoyment of doing a cleaning and restoration on them. I love the Ward turret lathe.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
 
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Yes, mostly museum pieces. Like ornerynorsk, I'd love the Ward. If it's in decent shape, I would think there'd be a good market for it - especially someone skilled (or willing to pay someone who is) in scraping and reconditioning the machine. Big heavy machines like that still do a lot of good low-qty work in a lot of industries.

You might try PracticalMachinist.com - they have some brand-specific forums as well as, I think, a general "old machinery" discussion area where you might get some good contacts, should eng-tips not be fruitful.

Also- geographical location has a LOT to do with the price of used machinery.
 
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Under that dirt and sea of swarf, the Lang lathe is from a well-respected manufacturer who were considered on par with some of the best British manufacturers of its day. It may still be a decent machine - sometimes the dirt tells a different story to actually cutting metal.
 
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I see some sheet metal machinery in there, there is a circle cutter in there that looks to be in usable shape.
B.E.

You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
 
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There is a plenishing hammer (bending tool by hammering at the center of a thin plate to make a dome or tank.)

Agree with the ironworker. Bottom left photo is of old (now useless) welding rods. Recycle them.

The others are not clear from the angle of the photo.
 
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I did not see the Planishing hammer , however I did see a set of sheet metal bending rollers .
B.E.


You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
 
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Racookpe, I saw what I took to be a planishing hammer, at first. But that appears to be part of the machine next to it, which appears to be a rotary shear. I think that may be the center pivot/clamp for a circle cutter as mentioned by Berkshire.
 
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Thanks to whoever wrote some notes on the insight sheet, did not leave a name but that's helpful.
 
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