Cheap VMC - Williamsburg VA

LeBland Makino FNC74 - $600. Supposed to be in working order, with a vice, 90* spindle tip, every manual known to man and some tooling. You'll need to get it out of the building (about 60 ft on concrete floor) Got a good sized track skid (Kubota SVL97) on site to help with that and a guy a few min down the road has a rotator and will come and lift it up for $400.

Downside - there's a crew coming to start scrapping it tomorrow (thursday) morning, so you'd need to coordinate with the owner's guy and convince him you have a plan to get it out of there in the next 24-48 hrs. Machine is 13,000 lb. I have a phone number for the owner's agent, will provide if you send a PM. Location is an industrial part in Barhamsville, VA. Easy access with a trailer.

He said today the tool holders in top shelf on first photo go with machine for $600. All tool holders shown and machine for $1500. Wouldn't be surprised if you could get that $1500 down some.

Also has a Trax LPM that may be available for $2000. Also supposedly working and has some tool holders. It's been outside under a tarp for a short time (day-maybe 1-2 weeks) and may have been rained on. May also have some coolant tank damage from them pushing it out with forklift. Guy I was down there with was going to buy it but was pissed they pushed it out, said they fawked up the tank and when he looked in a cabinet it was damp, so he though it was fawked from getting rained on. Not sure how true that is - I didn't see anything obviously wrong and tarp looked well secured but I didn't look close. I wasn't clear when I left if that guy was still getting it, they had another buyer or if it was still available.

Story is the owner is the landlord for a number of commercial/light industrial properties, and had this bay rented to a guy who had a pretty good size machine shop - apparently something like 26 machines. He got behind on rent and apparently just walked off and abandoned everything. Court judgement gave the landlord contents of the building and been cleaning it out to rent out. I found out about it Monday and was down there is morning picking up a 24" lathe for my shop. The FNC74 is the last machine they have left, and apparently the crew is coming tomorrow for final cleanout of the place as he's got a new tenant moving in the 15th. I don't know too much about VMCs, but everything looked intact and in working order to me. It's dirty and obviously well used, but I'd be very surprised if you couldn't just plug it in and start making parts. Also have all the various manuals with it. Seems like a hell of a deal for someone if you can move quick.

Guy let me drive the skid to pull the lathe out and load some grinders. It didn't have an issue getting my 5 ton lathe out, but the VMC is a bit heavier. I suspect you could drag it out relatively easily, or maybe need to jack it up and put some pipe rollers under it. It has lift hooks on it and should be easy to rig, just need a trailer that can take a 6.5 ton machine and some willingness to mess with it a bit. Pretty much couldn't get a better deal. I came close to getting it, but don't know anything about them, don't need it and used up all my motivation getting the lathe and higradeing end mills and other useful bits.

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Getting rained on shouldn't hurt the trak immediately. The electronics are all sealed up enough for that. The table rusting is going to be a concern pretty quick though.

bdkw1 said:

Getting rained on shouldn't hurt the trak immediately. The electronics are all sealed up enough for that. The table rusting is going to be a concern pretty quick though.

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Agree. Surface rust on table doesn't seem like it would be too much an issue either. I'd be more worried about water getting into the ways, ballscrews, motors, etc. than the table. Worst case just hit it with a wire wheel. It would take quite a lot of rust to change the table surface enough to matter.

sdmuleman said:

Agree. Surface rust on table doesn't seem like it would be too much an issue either. I'd be more worried about water getting into the ways, ballscrews, motors, etc. than the table. Worst case just hit it with a wire wheel. It would take quite a lot of rust to change the table surface enough to matter.

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Those are all protected and have drainage. Provided the drain channels are packed with chips from ****ty operators........

If it gets back into service with coolant fairly quickly then that'll solve the water issue.