Murad Cadet Lathe

HI, I am looking for a little help. I have a Murad Cadet lathe which I need to get sell. Anybody any idea of how much these sell for. It needs re furbishing and is complete apart from the electric motor.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Kind Regards.

Hi Peter, [email protected] states on his murad web page that he would be very interested to hear of anyone who posesses a murad cadet. When I was doing metalwork at school in the 1960's we had four of these in the metal work shop. I bet they were all scrapped, mores the pity.

Rick

ME no 2530 Nov 17 1949

You need to look over ebay for a few weeks to see the final selling not offer price of similar lathes. This would exclude the bigger ones like Colchesters and premium ones like Myford and reliable workhorses like Boxford. Then decide whether it's rarity ads any value which I doubt, and condition or for most being an unknown reduces the value plus finally location as travel is now so expensive. I would think somewhere between 500 and 1000 but I've not looked at finishing prices for a while.

If selling on ebay it also helps to not be a grumpy old git who won't cooperate in moving or loading it. Much better to have it ready on a pallet properly secured and have an engine crane available to help load,

Peter,

I guess the best answer is that your lathe is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Unfortunately, with the advent of eBay (and such like) people without any knowledge often pay far too much for machinery they haven't even seen. This makes for inflated prices and disappointed buyers.

I like old machinery (I've was talking about this earlier on here) but since I'm going to put some time and effort into them, I don't expect to pay silly prices. The same goes for "second-user" locomotives. A good friend of mine who used to trade in this area (sadly no longer with us) always maintained that many s/h engines were only worth the value of the castings used (and sometimes not even that). It's not a bad measure for some old tools either.

My advice would be to decide a price that you are happy with and place it at that price on somewhere like **LINK** and see if it sells (also have a look for comparable "Sold" lathes for an idea of value) . If it doesn't sell then you know your price is probably too high - or no-one wants your particular lathe. If it does sell, then you should be happy that you achieved your price and that the lathe is going to a (hopefully) good home.

Regards,

IanT

I've just noticed Bazyle's reply to you above Peter - and I think this is where we would have to differ. No disrespect to him but he mentions £500-£1000 as a potential ball park figure. He may well be right and you could find someone willing to pay this amount but it certainly wouldn't be me.

As one potential benchmark - I can purchase a new Super C3 lathe complete for under £600. No need to refurbish it (well hopefully not!) and it has a motor already fitted. You do not give too many details but your lathe seems to need attention and has no motor. This is what I was referring to when I mentioned eBay encouraging "inflated" prices. Of course, if you can sell your lathe for this sort of money, then good luck to you.

For me, these old tools are only bargains if the price compares favourably to the new alternative. If it doesn't then you must either want that particular model very badly - or it has moved into the realms of being a collectable (such as ornamental lathes for instance).

I do tend to refer to my machinery as "Antique" (but with my tongue firmly in one cheek). The reality is that they started out as verging on being junk (or scrap metal). I guess we do live in a funny old world though - where there are very few "Junk" Shops left any more. They tend to all call themselves "Antique" Shops these days.

Regards,

IanT

Dear Peter,

1. This is Mark Richard Murad; President Owner of Murad International LTD. My Uncle Wadia made these machines, and trained me from my youth to be the next generation.

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