Bought the Clausing-Colchester 13x36 for $1,200. It is a working machine with the usual accessories and a complete set of collets but the collet chuck is missing. Anyone have one? It was built in 1960. It is filthy and greasy but no rust and the ways seem good.
My 1967 Clausing 13x36 was $1200 in 2002, came with a quarter ton of tooling, and was so dirty that I could not see the 70's Boeing Seafoam green shop paint. My wife saw it in the carport and was shocked, and said I needed a shop, and she was not going to wait for me to pour the slab. She hired a slab contractor. I framed and sided the shop. She wired the panels and boxes, and I pulled the wires.
It was a mistake to own a worn out old piece of lathe, but I got a shop in the deal. Now there is a Chinese lathe in there.
