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Martin C

Hi Adrian, sorry to hear about your Dad. Its always a sad time when you have to dispose of a lifetimes work of collecting tools etc.

Besides the lathes, I expect that there are many small tools which don't look particularly useful, but I expect that there is probably as much value in the bits and pieces as the lathes themselves. To give you an idea, I have a well worn older lathe and an old milling machine. My total estimated second hand value of the workshop is around £25,000. If I take away the value of the lathe and mill it would leave 23,000 for insurance value, so even if I divide by 2 it still leaves a lot of value in the bits and pieces ! If you don't know / can't identify what you want to dispose of, perhaps get someone to dispose of them for you where you would offer a percentage of the sold value.

Bob

The 6 speed looks like a CL500M, and the smaller one a mini lathe.

There are posters on here who have and use CLM500s (A combined Lathe and Milling machine )

As said, it is important that the three jaw chuck has the second set of jaws (Note that like the set in the chuck, they will be, or should be, numbered, 1,2 and 3 ).

The mini lathe will be well known to many posters.

Neil Wyatt, having written a book on his Metalworker lathe, will, be very familar with it, and can give advice.

There should be sets of gears with both lathes. Don't mix them between the two machines.

Those for the mini lathe will be plastic, in all probability. The set should include:

20T (2 ), 30T, 35T, 40T (2 ) 45T, 50T 55T, 60T, 65T, 80T (2 )

The mini lathe has the Milling Attachment as an additional accessory, which does not normally come as a standard part for the lathe, but was bought additionally.

If you Google "Clarke CL 500M Manual", you should be able to download a manual, which will list the changegears available with the machine. Page 12 will show all the accessories that came with the machine, and allow you to identify the two sets of jaws for each of the 3 jaw chucks (See Page 25. Look at the teeth on the back. They will be the opposite way round for the internal jaws from those for the external. ).

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Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 11/04/2020 19:24:57

The blue one is a Clarke CL500m and is worth approx £500-£700

The yellow one is a Clarke CL250m and is worth approx £300-400

These are estimated using ebay, if you sell privately expect the lower end of the range and any extra tooling you have will obviously effect price upwards.

Hope that helps.

Edited By Hollowpoint on 11/04/2020 20:10:03