sotal Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 I'm not really in the market for any but a little engineering place is shutting shop a couple of units away and selling off all their old machinary. I popped in to have a look and a couple of items caught my eye. A Viceroy lathe 3 phase on a stand/cabinet complete with tooling for £175.00 and a single phase Milling machine with tooling - £100.00 The milling machine is a bit of a homemade job, the bottom half with vice etc is part of another machine, the top half has then been bolted on to that with a washing machine motor running it. Looks well made just lacks guards round the belt etc. So are those prices good? They seem good to me, and will it be much hassle to convert the lathe to single phase? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 I would say the lathe is a very good price. I'm not sure what the motor HP will be but I expect it could be converted to single phase motor. Or run it from a phase converter or inverter and stick with the existing motor. If you have space I'd say grab it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 At that price, if they were working well and I had the space I would have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotal Posted July 31, 2010 Author Share Posted July 31, 2010 Thanks, space is a bit of a premium at the moment but once I've sorted everything out there should be a nice spot for the lathe, think I'm going to give the milling machine a miss at £100, but I'm very tempted my the lathe - just not sure that I'd use it that much, I also forgot to look if it had the automatic bit on the x axis for doing things like threads - which would be nice but I presume it hasn't got? It all seemed to work well and seemed in very good nick, it's only had very light use making small brass bushes the biggest being about the size of a 2p coin by about 1cm deep, and it's only done 1 or 2 of these a month. I presume they got it second hand so no idea what it did in a previous life though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02jcole Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 This website should have some information about the lathe: www.lathes.co.uk James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superpants Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I've got a small viceroy- I suspect it will be the same one as it was a very common college machine. Easy to use and definately worth more than £175 they also splt down relatively easily for moving around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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