On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 11:23:21 PM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:32:49 -0500, wrote:



https://tinyurl.com/y5bgvk5x

Doh ! :-)
John T.
Looke like a kind of sad story. Says it's a "retirement auction". So
some guy built a business that could afford that kind of equipment and
the power to run it and the shop space to hold it, and he's retiring,
and there isn't anybody to take it over. Wonder how many people are
losing their jobs?

"retirement auction" Or more likely a going out of business auction. Going out of business due to low sales. Not because there is no one new to buy or take over the business, if it was profitable. As stated in another post, most of those type industrial jobs are now going to China or SE Asia. So except for custom work, there might not be much activity in the USA. Any regular repeat work is sourced from Asia. And I suspect there are new lathes that are CNC that do the same job this one does. So going forward, there might not be much use for this type of lathe.