Thread: Save this machine - LANDIS PLAIN CYLINDRICAL GRINDER - on Ebay!

LANDIS PLAIN CYLINDRICAL GRINDER, TYPE C - 14 x 36 - GC - eBay, Equipment, Machinery, Metalworking, Industrial. (end time 17-Aug-10 15:04:04 AEST)

First off, let me say this isnt my machine and I dont know the seller. Its an awesome looking machine for sale here in WA. If it doesnt get sold, they are going to scrap it! Hoping that some one might have need for a machine like this - or knows of someone who does. It might be dead already - they said scrap date was the end of July, but the eBay listing is still current.

Nice looking machine, looks like it could anchor a corner of someone's shed nicely. Does the seller's claim of scrap value ring true? $750/tonne for general ferrous scrap seems a tad steep.

Greg

At 5.5 tonne wouldn't that be around $350/tonne for scrap ?

Quite right. I missed the weight in the ebay listing, looked at the pictures and guessed at two tonnes. I forgot about the hydraulics and huge motors.

I am still a bit surprised at the price though. I think I got around $175/tonne for clean sorted steel last year when we cleaned up my parent's estate.

Greg

Don't forget that the rear end has fallenout of scrap over the last 3-4 weeks.
I had a clean up 4 weeks ago and was getting $200 per car shell, This has now droped below $100
I would say scrapping this machine is just an idle threat,

I reckon the seller is having a hard time adjusting to the reality that a machine like that is going to have zero appeal to the average hobbyist*, zero appeal to a profitable job shop and a small and diminishing market in the small shop run by a guy close to retirement age who probably already has one similar.

I reckon you could do some great work on that machine if all the ways are accurate, but who can afford the wages to run it with the required expertise?

*well, lots of appeal, but it needs high amperage three phase power, a very thick stable slab, ideally some kind of climate control (for tolerances) and knowledge. And some way to unload and rig and object that size.

If I had the money, The way to transport it to East Gippsland Victoria and the space to put it. I would buy it just so I could learn how to use it.
Matt

Question about Landis machines, does anyone have thread cutting dies for the threading machines they made?
regards,
Andrew.

Just heard the Landis grinder has been sold, not to the scrappers either... I know the seller who had it...