06-08-2017, 01:13 AM
I think that that is a really neat old lathe that takes up a lot of floor space and wall space.
The electrical knife switches and the old wiring are not really issues.
Deciding what you have to give up in the shop in exchange for the coolness factor and the small increase in capacity over what you already have would be a difficult thing for me to do in your shoes.
On the positive side, with the proper re0furb, I expect that it will have less run-out than your current mini-lathe. I can not tell from the picture whether or not it would give you enough length to turn table legs.
It is the sort of machine that I would truly hate to go to scrap, but the expense in shop space is big.
The last Shopsmith that I bought sort of fell into that same category. I did turn down the next SS after that one that was offered to me (that one would probably have been free or less) because I really could not justify a 7th SS.
The electrical knife switches and the old wiring are not really issues.
Deciding what you have to give up in the shop in exchange for the coolness factor and the small increase in capacity over what you already have would be a difficult thing for me to do in your shoes.
On the positive side, with the proper re0furb, I expect that it will have less run-out than your current mini-lathe. I can not tell from the picture whether or not it would give you enough length to turn table legs.
It is the sort of machine that I would truly hate to go to scrap, but the expense in shop space is big.
The last Shopsmith that I bought sort of fell into that same category. I did turn down the next SS after that one that was offered to me (that one would probably have been free or less) because I really could not justify a 7th SS.
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A wish for you all: May you keep buying green bananas.
A wish for you all: May you keep buying green bananas.
