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Karl Townsend Karl Townsend is offline
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Default How much should a lathe rebuild cost, approximately

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:04:48 -0600, Ignoramus26334
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I am just wondering if someone has an approximate idea: how much does
a lathe rebuild (just a bed and cross slide regrind and Moglice)
cost.

Transportation of the machine is not a problem.

Sizes are 16x30 or 16x54 for the two lathes in question.

i


The question is labor cost. I rebuild for cheap cause I pay myself
nothing. Real easy to spend 200+ hours on something like this. If you
paid somebody 15-20 an hour, it could easy go over $10K. There's a
reason industry just scraps an old machine.

Karl