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thank you steve. He suggested £1300 - 1700 for the lathe alone, I didn’t quite realise just how much other stuff there was so he also isn’t aware of those yet. See what he says when he comes to view it all. At least now, as J Hancock said, I’m at least beginning to get an idea of value so I know the guy doesn’t take liberties tomorrow.

How do you think I feel! Haha I think that’s the beauty of selling in one go to someone. I’m fine with eBay/Facebook marketplace/forums etc. but I don’t live close enough to manage the tens of adverts and viewings/collections etc.

I took a look this morning and the serial number is SK131054, so from Tony's website, "SK130920 - SK144902 = 1976 - 1979".

You seem a friendly bunch so I'm going to take liberties here and post some more photos of all the 'bits' to see if you have further guidance.

First item, as far as I can make out, is possibly a milling attachment, or maybe a standalone machine?

Then there are all these, I've no idea if they're attachments for the lathe, milling machine or some separate machine entirely. I guess there is some value to the motor at least?

Then what I guess are tooling and bits for the lathe; cutters, reamers, chucks etc. From my basic knowledge, researching online the drill chucks can be ~£50, chucks ~£200-400?

That is one photo, but there are also boxes of stock material and so I had to create a shared album, there were just too many photos! haha

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QVL6uGF1a51MFW4U9

Thanks for the link to Tony's website, Dave. I spoke to him this morning and he was very friendly and informative

Edited By Ben Morgan on 14/03/2020 12:42:09

Appreciate all the feedback, thanks.

Alan, I think you might have summarised my thoughts better than I could even articulate them, thank you. The lathe etc. is at my mums, 180 miles from me, and is one of many things for us to sort though so for us there is some value in someone taking it all away at once and saving us the hassle of individual sales.

I forgot to add, the gentleman I mentioned gave a similar estimate so it’s comforting to read your estimates in the same ball park.

There are many boxes of mandrel, drill chucks, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, cutting tools, knurling tools and even some stock material (brass, copper). eBay would suggest some of these (chucks for example) might be a couple of hundred each?

Wow, thanks for the rapid replies

I did do a bit of ebay research, but I was concious that the value of the lathe was probably in things that I couldn't see, like the power cross feed, the screwcutting gearbox or the Griptru chuck, as mgnbuk says. So I wasn't sure where this lathe would fall on the ebay scale (£700 - £3325).

I didn't think about advertising here - in the past I've seen that forum rules only allow you to sell if you set the price - which is my problem at the moment! haha

Hi All,

I'm after a quick bit of advice in regards to the value of a Myford super7 lathe. My father sadly passed away last summer and one of the items he stored in the garage was this lathe.

The lathe originally belonged to his uncle, who used it to build steam trains (which are also in the process of finding a new home )

I found someone interested to buy it, and they seem nice and genuine but at the moment I'm only going off their valuation, so I hoped someone could provide some guidance?

Many Thanks,

Ben