South bend Heavy 10 price check?

[FishingMan]

My friend has a lead on a Southbend heavy 10 in real good shape. Fully restored ways trued everything gone over. With all kinds of tooling. Guy wants $3000 for it because of all the extras and work put into it. Is price way off? Or can he get alot better lathe for the money?

 

[larry_g]

If all you say is true then 3k is not to far out of line. Now if it is a Krylon restore then to high. A whole lot of the deal rides on just exactly what comes with the machine and just how the bed was trued up. Your asking us to value something unseen and described in the third person.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[RAYJAY]

is this the lathe your looking at?

https://allentown.craigslist.org/tls/d/ashfield-south-bend-heavy-10-lathe/6805033387.html

 

[FishingMan]

Thats the one. What do you think?

 

[RAYJAY]

does not look bad..... but looks are deceiving, with out doing a run out test and check the head play its a **** shoot, for a gunsmith it looks a little dirty, and are all the collets with it.
what is your main use going to be?

 

[ZRX61]

I sold mine for $3500 about 8 years ago

 

[FishingMan]

I just want another tool in the arsenal. Hobby stuff. Dont want too small and no giant. Its a good size.

 

[Whitworth]

In a word, YES, it is worth it. The part-out price of what is all included would exceed $3000

Is it the right lathe for a particular need or type of work, different question entirely.

 

[rsanter]

If most of what was said is true, then it is worth it.
The tooling gets expensive and regrinding a scraping a lathe is not cheap.

Check it out is the o key way to know

 

[Maui]

I have a 9" South Bend lathe on the original factory steel cabinet with a quick change gear box, three and four jaw chucks, drill chuck, lots of tooling, etc. that I would be willing to sell you for less than half that price. PM me if you like. I'm near Rochester, NY.

Maui

 

[tdkkart]

It's an OK price, IF you know what you are looking at and are careful. A plain bearing lathe of that vintage may or may not be worth having. I'd have to see it cut a test bar and if that worked out I'd still offer $2500. The tooling alone adds $1000 or more to it, and even if it's not the greatest it's still worth twice what a 9" SB simply because it has the capability to run 5C collets.

All that said, IMO the 9 and 10" SB lathes are over rated. Much rather have a Clausing 12", or any of a dozen others in similar size.