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  1. #1
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    Default Schaublin mill on Facebook Brisbane.

    Anyone on here buy this?
    I was interested and onto it in the first few minutes of it being posted but stuffed up contacting the seller so missed out.
    It was very early about 1953 and had been repainted so needed to inspect in person.
    Sold for a bit under asking price of 7k.
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    Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)

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    I know the seller and can confirm it was in fantastic condition, the previous owner touched up the paint work and made efforts to convert it to single phrase which where more or less in vain hence the extremely low hours on the machine considering its age.

    The interest Gabriel got in that mill was nothing short of crazy. I believe its going down to Tasmania but while organizing the deal he upped his ebay price to 8k so no one would buy it on ebay and a local fellow actually clicked buy it now. as he already had an agreement with the fellow in tassy he had to let the poor fellow know it was already spoken for.

    I could perhaps partially put the extreme amount of interest down to certain youtubers owning type 13's but in recent months Covid had made the secondhand market go ballistic. it wasn't that long ago that UQ threw an unused Douglas shaper in their scrap bin and now they're happily fetching 1k-2k.

    likewise I saw a completely flogged out A&S Bridgeport sell for 5.5k here on the goldcoast. zerk oilers piled full of grease, Y axis gib was at the extreme of its travel, X axis handle was a welded monstrosity and the quill had some nasty gall lines when lowered. It had a slotting head but I measured about 8 thou of deflection at the bottom of its stroke either way before my tenths indicate ran out of travel. It's a troubling trend for Hobbyists but its become quiet apparent that the great majority of the new flood of potential machine buyers have no idea what they're looking at and are willing to buy machines on name alone.

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    Nice piece of gear, we have 2 of their lathes at work (a 70 and a 125) and they're sooooo smooth to use.

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    "I could perhaps partially put the extreme amount of interest down to certain youtubers owning type 13's but in recent months Covid had made the secondhand market go ballistic. it wasn't that long ago that UQ threw an unused Douglas shaper in their scrap bin and now they're happily fetching 1k-2k.

    likewise I saw a completely flogged out A&S Bridgeport sell for 5.5k here on the goldcoast. zerk oilers piled full of grease, Y axis gib was at the extreme of its travel, X axis handle was a welded monstrosity and the quill had some nasty gall lines when lowered. It had a slotting head but I measured about 8 thou of deflection at the bottom of its stroke either way before my tenths indicate ran out of travel. It's a troubling trend for Hobbyists but its become quiet apparent that the great majority of the new flood of potential machine buyers have no idea what they're looking at and are willing to buy machines on name alone."


    I saw the Schaublin on face book, the fact it had a universal table and some accessories i thought added to the premium price, but gee the work envelope is small on them

    It interesting the price of second hand manual machines , the same is true here in South Australia, part of the factor there was a glut for a few years with so much of the support industry for the car manufacturers closing down , learning institutions etc getting rid of machines, we were spoilt for choice and there was steady steam of good machines for relatively cheap prices available, well maybe that river has run dry

    Yes i believe is the youtube thing is real, the resurgence in the use of shapers, engraving machines, large flat belt plane bearing lathes, some bizarre belief worn out "old iron" is some how better than a new machine , no need to survey an older machine as any wear can be corrected with a couple of minutes scrapeing as evident by their favourite U tube host

    I have been looking for a new (to me) lathe ( 1 to 3 ton range ) and there has not been much about and a couple of machines i have looked at i think are expensive and have had a hard life but thats were the market is now

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    Quote Originally Posted by twopintsplease View Post


    Yes i believe is the youtube thing is real, the resurgence in the use of shapers, engraving machines, large flat belt plane bearing lathes, some bizarre belief worn out "old iron" is some how better than a new machine , no need to survey an older machine as any wear can be corrected with a couple of minutes scrapeing as evident by their favourite U tube host

    I think you've more or less hit the nail on the head and the "couples of minutes scraping" gave me a good chuckle, during the height of Covid I was flooded with emails and calls about scraping classes, the vast majority were individuals who'd recently purchased machines and with little to no machining experience but after surveying their new purchase came to realize one way or another than it wasn't in the condition they'd been led to believe. Of those who inquired about the scraping classes a great number were put off by the amount of work that would be required and I actually had one fellow ask if a Saturday/Sunday class would be enough time to learn to scrape and rebuild a Bridgeport style mill. there has of course been quiet a few people genuinely interested in learning scraping but I can safely say in no uncertain terms that a great many QLD machineshops have cleared out their machine boneyards with an excellent profit to boot. Generally speaking if a machines been hiding at the back of a shop unused for many years there's usually a reason why.

    I hate to admit it as I'm a terrible cheapskate when it comes to buying machines but the amount of decent machines entering the secondhand market is dwindling while the torrent of new hobby machinists is exponentially increasing due to youtube and the like. I honestly can't see the prices of secondhand machines going down any time soon.

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