MalcB | 22/03/2017 14:42:12 |
257 forum posts 35 photos | cheap price on this one. |
Nick_G | 22/03/2017 16:12:00 |
![]() 1808 forum posts 744 photos | . That is a very good price for that. Maybe the education establishment has decided to sell it themselves as that is more than they would get from a dealer buying it in to move on. ..................... Possibly.?
Nick |
John Rudd | 22/03/2017 16:39:57 |
1479 forum posts 1 photos | I'd have it myself.....its not too far away from me, across the bridge.... Alas, no room at the inn and a potential house move on the horizon.....besides, I have three lathes already.... |
Robbo | 22/03/2017 17:22:06 |
1504 forum posts 142 photos | If you clicked on the link did you also get more offers at the bottom of the page, including another M250 for £2,600! |
Mark Rand | 22/03/2017 17:24:31 |
1505 forum posts 56 photos | Every machine tool seems to be an 'Ex school machine' even when it spent all its life in a steel mill. |
JasonB | 22/03/2017 17:56:35 |
![]() 25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles | And if they have all been crashed like AllanB did on a college one the otherday who would want an ex schools/college machine! |
Robbo | 22/03/2017 19:09:24 |
1504 forum posts 142 photos | And on one I saw the "scholars" seemed to think that the gearbox was where you put the swarf. |
Allan B | 22/03/2017 19:43:39 |
![]() 133 forum posts 23 photos | Ummmm me? I would never do a thing like that 😂 😂 😂 they even offered to sell it to me cheep today lol. Allan |
Alan Waddington 2 | 22/03/2017 20:58:39 |
537 forum posts 88 photos | Not that much of a bargain, no gap bed, basic 4 way toolpost, no faceplate etc I wouldn't buy a Harrison M without hearing it run either, unless it was really cheap. Have come across a few M's that looked mint but sounded like a bag of spanners from the headstock. And always makes me laugh when they put 'Ex School' like it's the holy grail.....Paint might have fared well in the classroom environment , but students are not sympathetic to machinery. |
Georgineer | 22/03/2017 23:50:28 |
652 forum posts 33 photos | Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 22/03/2017 20:58:39:l.....Paint might have fared well in the classroom environment......
... that depends if you can live with the epithets and symbols scratched into most of them. George |
John Stevenson | 23/03/2017 00:23:05 |
![]() 5068 forum posts 3 photos | Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 22/03/2017 20:58:39:
I wouldn't buy a Harrison M without hearing it run either, unless it was really cheap. Have come across a few M's that looked mint but sounded like a bag of spanners from the headstock.
Too right. Never struck me as a decent design in that they assembled the cluster of gear and then welded them all together. At least all the Chinese knock off's I have seen have one piece cluster gears and never sound as dad as the M type. |
thaiguzzi | 23/03/2017 02:13:53 |
![]() 704 forum posts 131 photos | Premier machine Tools (no relation) have a couple of VERY nice Smart and Brown's for sale. One model A and a couple of late VSL's. Reasonable money too. If i still lived over there.... |
Nick_G | 23/03/2017 09:05:06 |
![]() 1808 forum posts 744 photos | . If I had the room. ................... Which I don't If I had a spare £1500 .............. Which I don't If I had need for another lathe .......... Which I don't I would take a punt / gamble on that.
Nick |
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