In article , Gunner Asch says...

I'm still looking for a white dial hardinge UM or TM in cherry
condition for example. Sobel may be closed before he finds one

Hard to find. Its that "cherry" part this is the issue. Are you a tire
kicker too? G

The last one I bought from him had no electrics, and had all the
handwheels busted off of it. Somebody had replaced them home-made
ones made from (and I **** you not) bent and welded rebar. Spokes,
handles, and rims were all re-bar.

That one was not cherry.

Actually I'd like to find one for less than $3K that has white dials,
a vise, the stock overarm, no vertical head of any sort, and minimial
wear on the ways. I'd like to buy it for work, not for home. So I
figure I probably have a bigger fiduciary responsibility for my
employer than if I were buying it for me personally.

g

I've seen several of these come and go on ebay, and aside from the
difficulty of purchasing that way, most of them have either been
dogs, 440 volt machines, fully tricked out with vertical heads and
M heads, or that nutty one that somebody 'decorated' the ways and
table with a biax scraper. You know the one.

Ability for me to actually see the machine under power would be
a plus of course, so that kind of confines it to NY metro area or
thereabouts. Basically I'm waiting for the right 'target of
opportunity.'

Jim


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