CL Find and restore Ammco 4000

[MattVa]

$400.00 and lots of time later I have a nice brake lathe. Came with complete tooling and adapters.

I use it more often than I thought. I even used to turn a 4" PVC adapter at one point.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Looks pretty nice. Did you have to do a lot of work on it, or was it that clean when you got it?

 

[rburke65]

Matt, that this is beautiful! Love the colors! Nicely done.

 

[MattVa]

It was a complete mess and the linear feed wasn't working.

I stripped it to a bare case and rebuilt it from the ground up.

It is as good as new now.

I saw theses selling quite high 1200-2000, but when I picked this up it was 100% complete with 3 full sets of adapters and tooling, so 300 wasn't a bad deal I thought. The feed was a simple bronze gear part. Rest of it was my labor, steam cleaning the case, soaking parts and stripping and painting stand was the real work.

Very easy to work on

I love craigslist list finds. Restoring them is part of the joy, but I use them as intended.

I have the Ammco 4000, Corghi 2420ti Tire Changer, Schildmeier Seal-Line balancer. I haven't restored the cosmetics on the Corghi yet. Maybe this coming spring.

 

[countryroad82]

Nice! I would like to find a brake lathe but I want one at your price!!

 

[Falcon67]

You stole that thing for sure. Very nice. X2 - never see those around here for that price, more like the "$1200" and looking like left outside.