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Landslide said:
Well boys… I really done it now.

I bought it and now I gotta go get it. 9 plus hour drive one way uuuuuugh.

I think it was a good dealio but I’m not sure what these things are on the X and Y other than servo motors.

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“Y”?
 
cj3a said:
Potato pictures. Maybe a tracer attachment or what’s left of one.
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Never seen a tracer that wasn't hydraulic. I'd think some basic CNC setup.

Pictures are **** though.

Looks like they sold 11 very similar Leblonds and that was the only one that had those.


That part of WV must be just outside my search radius on Govdeals because I never saw them and I probably would have picked one up for what they sold for.
 
****, I was searching for leblond results on govdeals and this chonker popped up on govplanet. :eek:

I'm guessing the giant through hole is super rare and super desirable as it sold for $18k in this condition....likely sat outside for several months.
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bgaidan said:
****, I was searching for leblond results on govdeals and this chonker popped up on govplanet. :eek:

I'm guessing the giant through hole is super rare and super desirable as it sold for $18k in this condition....likely sat outside for several months.
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Damn. Short bed, big bore. Just what I'm looking for in a new lathe. Pretty uncommon. Most of the big bore stuff is way longer than I'll ever use.
 
bgaidan said:
Never seen a tracer that wasn't hydraulic. I'd think some basic CNC setup.

Pictures are **** though.

Looks like they sold 11 very similar Leblonds and that was the only one that had those.


That part of WV must be just outside my search radius on Govdeals because I never saw them and I probably would have picked one up for what they sold for.
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Yeah I hem hawed around and actually backed off of them and they ran they’re course none selling. Then they re listed and I hawked over them again. I let three of them run their course again. But then the last three I got weak and tried figuring out the unit least abused looking at crap photos. One had a dro but looked more of a used unit with broken knobs and wore down paint in areas. And den, last few minutes I said aw fawk it.

I don’t see anything out there showing what option is on the unit I bought, so it’ll be interesting to finger out.

I also had to figure out the logistics of getting it. They no help loading and it’s just me. It’s gotta scoot across the floor out on to the truck loading dock and den down on my trailer. Best I can figure it weighs around 2,500~3,000lbs. However, I can not find out how freaking wide the sheet metal body is so I’ll have to call them.

I have jacks and that to get it up off the floor and onto my mobile machine mover system I made. One of those wing nuts there will have to help push the fawking thing tho. And den, once on the loading dock, it’s all down hill from there.

It’s gonna be an adventure dontcha know
 
I found a manual online and found the recommended method of moving the lathe or lifting it. Pretty much what I figured but it’s good to see they’re recommendations

Only thing I’m getting mixed readings on is how wide the freaking body or base is. They say it’s 37” wide but the manual print says around 26”. I’m not sure what those guys are measuring on it. I really need to know this info for my jig setup uuuuugh. I plan on bringing things to adapt if necessary

Weight I was thinking seems to be in the right area but could be heavier with the added feature on it. LeBlond is checking into what the system added to the lathe is and let me know. He’s never seen anything like it before so?!?
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Picked up three used/new still in packages 11R visegrips at the antique mall. Never know what you’ll find there. I’m thinking they sold for **** at the garage sale or estate sale this both owner got them for. But I got them for $10.50 each so I ain’t bitching.

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Beefing up my line up. I need more swivel feet ones tho.
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TrikeKid said:
Tool guy says this is more popular than the M18 version with his body shop customers. I need to pick up some disks so I haven't run it yet.
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I got a DeWalt 20v one and I use it quite a lot with thin or thick battery packs I have. I like it and it does what it’s supposed to do.

I also have a dynabrade pneumatic one too (owned it first) and it is a very smooth operator. Veritable speed like the DeWalt. I got a ton of sticky different grit pads for it too. I’m not a body or sheet metal guy by any means.
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[486] said:
the swivel pad ones tend to annoy me, since the flippy pads are always flopped over the wrong way or get caught on stuff lol
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Interesting. I I have several of them and have been using them for years and have never had that problem.
 
[486] said:
the swivel pad ones tend to annoy me, since the flippy pads are always flopped over the wrong way or get caught on stuff lol
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I re read your post a few times and still draw a blank at wtf you’re trying to explain lol
 
Dunno what it was but I've got a couple with them and they've got a thick layer of dust on them, while the solid pad ones get used all the time


ooh I remember what it was, when you're clamping little fiddly bits the ones with the pads love ejecting the part rather than gripping it
like clamping a piece of round stock onto whatever you're welding
 
[486] said:
Dunno what it was but I've got a couple with them and they've got a thick layer of dust on them, while the solid pad ones get used all the time


ooh I remember what it was, when you're clamping little fiddly bits the ones with the pads love ejecting the part rather than gripping it
like clamping a piece of round stock onto whatever you're welding
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Gotcha. I use the pad ones to hold flat items mostly and odd ball stuff to where they won’t spit off the part. There are times when it’s all clamps on deck to do a job but that’s not common.

I’m in the works now to get one of those steel fab tables made with spaced out holes on the top etc. but it’s going to be cut out on a CNC plasma table and I don’t want to deal with the kurf of the cut in the holes and the holes will be case hardened after being cut out. So he’s going to cross mark every hole location and I’m going to mag drill them out. But once I get the table I gotta start acquiring more clamps for that. Never ends
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
Need a recommendation on a new impact. I bought a dcf887b six years ago this month and it's giving up the ghost. 9/10 times I hit the trigger, it'll spin but have no power. Tried every battery I have, including a 60v max battery, and it does the same thing with all of them. This one:


Question is, do I just buy another one of the same or is there a newer/better option for a general use impact out there? I see some more expensive models now, but I'm looking for experience.

Has to be Dewalt. Have too many other yellow tools and batteries to switch.
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Picked this DCF860 up, seems pretty strong so far. Hopefully I get 5 or so years out of it.

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Auction day.

I need another K&T Horizontal like I need a ****ing hole in the head, but it's not like you're not gonna buy one for $103.50 so here I am. :laughing:
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This poor girl spent a little time outside. I think she's salvageable, but it's gonna take some elbow grease. Not sure if that'll be me or not.
One of the reasons I picked it up should be obvious from this pic. Even if the machine can't be saved, that vertical head is worth well over a grand alone...and I might just find a better machine down the road that it will fit.
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I didn't realize it until I was throwing it in the back of the truck, but the overarm support appears to be shop made. Looks decent enough and probably works just fine. That gear is the drive gear for the vertical head. The smaller K&T I picked up a couple months ago had the head but didn't have the gear and the ones on ebay are running $4-500.

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Worst case, I'll pull and useful parts off and scrap the rest of it. Scrap value is triple what I paid any way. :laughing:
 
Also picked up this little Chicago 316 brake. 3' wide, 16 gauge capacity. It went cheaper than I thought it would. Not sure if I'll keep it or just flip it. It obviously spent some time outside too, but everything seems to work like it should and the brake edges are all nice and sharp and the bed and top blade appear to be perfectly flat. I may do a little rust treatment on the removable edge pieces and strip and paint the rest.

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PAToyota said:
Anyone who deals with acquiring large equipment of pretty much any sort can relate to this guy...

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Funny thing, there was also a K&T Model K on Govdeals that's about the same size as this one. It closed about 30 minutes after this one did and I half thought that if I win this one, I'd buy the other one too since it looked to be in hood shape, but didn't have the vertical head. If it wasn't a "you must move and load" situation, I probably would have ended up doing it. :shaking:
Pretty glad I didn't though. I really have no place to put it inside and I'd feel pretty bad leaving a good machine outside. Today's buy, if my little Telehandler can pick it up, I plan to at least put it back in my pole barn and spray it down with rust inhibitor until I have time to **** with it. If it can't lift it, it's going to stay in the driveway with a tarp over it. 😢
 
I had quite the "pick" day today.
These pictures are what I snuck in as I was loading up one of the two 48" x 48" bin pallets. All sorts of taps, and chasing dies, wrenches, sockets, a Buda rail road jack, reamers, a torch pantograph, spray welding stuff, 40 lbs of stainless welding rods, hard facing TIG filler, boring heads, pullers and clamshells, more large Greenfield tap handles, keyway broaches, belt lacing teeth and tools, and a big case of books for various machine tools, among other various things. I was just grabbing and going while the seller was tallying it up. Gonna take me some time to go through it all.

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lol, all those taps and I bet you’ll still have to buy one later on you don’t have :flipoff2: :laughing:

Nice level. 18” bring serious coin
 
So, the electrical cylindrical units on the lathe must be aftermarket, nothing on the invoice has them listed up.

Looks like it’s capable of turning metric threads best I can tell.
 
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