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Model Engineering in UK - Model engineering, metal crafts in UK
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Posted by Dudley Simons on August 6, 2008, 5:01 am
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Hi All
Following the success of my steel disposal here a while back - I figured
that I may as well try this one on you all!
One of the University Departments I deal with here in Cambridge has an
old Kerry lathe which may be coming up for disposal shortly. I can't
give you chapter and verse on which model it is and its capabilities but
broadly speaking.......
It has a NON gap bed, 6 inch chuck an over all length of maybe four foot
or so - 2 foot something bed? It has a 3 phase motor. I don't know how
accurate it is but knowing the department where it is coming from it
will not have had a hard life and ought to be reasonably accurate. As
far as i know all the feeds etc work - its unwired ready to move so I
can't turn up a test piece. It would have chucks with it and maybe some
other tooling - I haven't looked in the cupboard yet. It is fixed to a
cast steel type cabinet/base with a coolant/swarf tray on top. The
cabinet houses the motor and looks to be as heavy as the lathe! Not
sure how easy it would be to separate the lathe from the base - probably
a pain in the bum.
At present they are waiting to hear whether or not one of their people
wants it for his workshop at home. I suspect he may want it but will
not be able to move it and not having a 3 phase supply will not be keen
to spend 200 quid on a suitable inverter and that the lathe will then be
made available.
So, if the above were to become available sometime around the end of
next week .............. who might be interested - just in principle,
no committment to take it etc!
You would need to be able to move it yourself once it is outside of the
building, it could be moved around the building on a pallet truck.
However once you are outside you are on your own! So some experience of
moving machinery would be a definite advantage! You need to bring your
own man power and your own transport to take it away.
The price is negotiable - I was thinking along the lines of a £50
donation into their workshop coffee kitty (just for the lathe and the
head and tail chucks/center as currently fitted) any other tooling
would be by negotiation. The 50 quid is based on what it is likely to
make at the local scrappy - its ultimate destination if no one wants it!
Once I get some idea of interest I can arrange to go over and take a
couple of digital images which I can mail out.
regards
Dudley
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Posted by Mark Rand on August 6, 2008, 5:28 am
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wrote:
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>One of the University Departments I deal with here in Cambridge has an
>old Kerry lathe which may be coming up for disposal shortly. I can't
>give you chapter and verse on which model it is and its capabilities but
>broadly speaking.......
>
Get thee behind me Satan!
It should make someone happy.
Try to either get pictures or get the exact model number.
Splitting the lathe from the cabined should be very simple, but will still
result in 5 cwt needing to be lifted, with 2 cwt for the stand. Easy with an
engine hoist, or just move the whole thing up a ramp into a van or trailer on
rollers.
Mark Rand
RTFM
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Posted by Dudley Simons on August 6, 2008, 8:38 am
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Mark Rand wrote:
> wrote:
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>> One of the University Departments I deal with here in Cambridge has an
>> old Kerry lathe which may be coming up for disposal shortly. I can't
>> give you chapter and verse on which model it is and its capabilities but
>> broadly speaking.......
>>
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> Get thee behind me Satan!
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> It should make someone happy.
>
> Try to either get pictures or get the exact model number.
>
> Splitting the lathe from the cabined should be very simple, but will still
> result in 5 cwt needing to be lifted, with 2 cwt for the stand. Easy with an
> engine hoist, or just move the whole thing up a ramp into a van or trailer on
> rollers.
>
>
> Mark Rand
> RTFM
Hi Mark
Well I think its safe to say that even you won't be able to get it
'easily' into a Metro!
:o)
regards
Dudley
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Posted by Mark Rand on August 6, 2008, 12:24 pm
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>Hi Mark
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>Well I think its safe to say that even you won't be able to get it
>'easily' into a Metro!
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>:o)
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Wouldn't fit. But I did move a Hardinge DV59 plus an ML7 and three drill
presses with a Transit, trolley jack and a Sherpa 700 lb manual forklift.
I need another lathe like I need a hole in the head, but it should do good
work for someone, which ever of the several models it turns out to be.
regards
Mark Rand
RTFM
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Posted by John S on August 6, 2008, 12:30 pm
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> I need another lathe like I need a hole in the head.
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> regards
> Mark Rand
> RTFM
But if you got the 'right' one you could bore one to half a thou.
John S.
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>One of the University Departments I deal with here in Cambridge has an
>old Kerry lathe which may be coming up for disposal shortly. I can't
>give you chapter and verse on which model it is and its capabilities but
>broadly speaking.......
>