Lathe bed marks – would you be happy to have this?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

My only comment is that the 'scraping' looks to have been done with a file, rather than a scraper blade, which points towards it being done by an amateur. The usefulness of it will be entirely down to how well they succeeded in levelling the bed, but they clearly realised it was only worth taking off high spots, not trying to gouge out the dings.

As for the dings, they probably occupy about 1% of the bed area, completely negligible if the accompanying high spots were scraped down OK.

Neil

[SteveIParticipant @stevei]

Hi,

 

Sorry I wanted to edit my last post but now cannot.

 

"Again if the price is right I would not worry about it being rebuilt in to a perfectly adequate lathe bed. However that requires tools which the OP may not have and may not wish to invest."

 

Should have read:

 

"Again if the price is right I would not worry about it being rebuilt in to a perfectly adequate lathe bed. However that requires tools, know how and time which the OP may not have and may not wish to invest in."

 

There are some excellent video on youtube with myford lathe rebuilds. Recently a complete rust bucket was successfully being rebuilt by a skilled amateur with the tooling and some money to buy parts that are not possible to save, and turcite to build up the lost height.

 

Martin is quite correct. Only the buyer can assess the value to them, and to define whether it is a rebuild project machine tool or something to immediately start using. It's a hobby after all.

 

Steve

 

 

Edited By SteveI on 12/05/2017 15:04:07

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