Barn or garage find

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Yup, age is one thing, but I'll bet dollars to donuts it was about condition and size of the lathe not to mention the mill. Not all of us are set up like you o' king of heavy metal. Much less where to put beasts like that in a regular garage. I have purposely limited myself in shop size and ability to haul heavy metal. Because I know I suffer badly from TAS( tool aqusision syndrome).

It will be interesting to see how you keep these two fine examples of Old Iron from the scrapyard without indoor storage. Tarps are machinery's death around here. But we are close to the coast and you are more inland I think. I don't mean to cast despersion on your wonderful find and ability to take advantage such find. I look fwd to seeing them back in the lineup in your shop. Hopefully with some blow by blows of what it took to get them going again.

Recently we had the mother of all barn sales with huge similar examples of Old Iron put outside to be able to give access to the completely packed barn. One was a vertical mill, a huge horizontal and huge old drill press. I think the vert was an American, the horizontal was an Index and I couldn't see anything on the drill press. They wanted $450 ea and each one was in running condition. When the sale was over after a month(I had come when it had already been going on for 3 weekends and it was still stacked to the rafters!) and the machines were still sitting outside I don't know but I think like me nobody had the equipment to load and unload or big shop for them.

This guy I think had gone over the tipping point from a working shop to a hoarder. There was tons of all kinds of stuff and peaking out of a pile was this Atlas 7b shaper. I asked one of the family who was running the sale and expected it to be too much. When he said $125 I had the duel reaction of surprise and doom. I knew I couldn't walk away and it was going to fit in the garage. Bonus is its going to be very handy and its not the worthless obsolete tool it's been made out to be.