David Eisan
03-09-2004, 9:44 PM
Dear All,
Well, it happened again, I went to an auction looking to buy one thing and left with another. The auction ad mentioned a few pieces of equipment and hand planes. I went for the planes, I have all the machines I want and need. There were about 15 hand planes, and *every one* of them had been dropped and welded back together. I did buy a #7 that will make a good user for $25. I also bought a box lot full of Stanley blades, lever caps and frogs for $20, soon headed to Ebay...
Then they came to the Heavy Arn, first up, a Unisaw. It was the venerable model 34-450, made here in Canada in the mid 60's. It had a Uniguard, popup splitter and a 1.5hp 110/220 (single phase) motor, currently wired for 220 with a mag switch. Even the front dust door was on the saw, nothing was missing or broken. I already have two Unisaws, and I had no intention of buying a third, but when bidding stopped at $400, I looked around and since no one was countering, I hollered, $410! That was the last bid and I bought another Unisaw for $410 CDN ($310 USD)
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/newuni.jpg
(it is the Unisaw in the middle)
There were beatup Delta 1460 lathes, but I already have one that I restored and I didn't need two more. Both were single phase and sold for $90 CDN ($70 USD) each. I almost bought them, but I had no way to get them home, since my toy truck (Ford Ranger) is only rated for 800# and a Unisaw and two lathes were not going to fit on. If I didn't buy the Uni, I think I might have
bought 'em both and fixed them up.
Oh well, I will find some way to use it...
Thanks,
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.
Well, it happened again, I went to an auction looking to buy one thing and left with another. The auction ad mentioned a few pieces of equipment and hand planes. I went for the planes, I have all the machines I want and need. There were about 15 hand planes, and *every one* of them had been dropped and welded back together. I did buy a #7 that will make a good user for $25. I also bought a box lot full of Stanley blades, lever caps and frogs for $20, soon headed to Ebay...
Then they came to the Heavy Arn, first up, a Unisaw. It was the venerable model 34-450, made here in Canada in the mid 60's. It had a Uniguard, popup splitter and a 1.5hp 110/220 (single phase) motor, currently wired for 220 with a mag switch. Even the front dust door was on the saw, nothing was missing or broken. I already have two Unisaws, and I had no intention of buying a third, but when bidding stopped at $400, I looked around and since no one was countering, I hollered, $410! That was the last bid and I bought another Unisaw for $410 CDN ($310 USD)
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/newuni.jpg
(it is the Unisaw in the middle)
There were beatup Delta 1460 lathes, but I already have one that I restored and I didn't need two more. Both were single phase and sold for $90 CDN ($70 USD) each. I almost bought them, but I had no way to get them home, since my toy truck (Ford Ranger) is only rated for 800# and a Unisaw and two lathes were not going to fit on. If I didn't buy the Uni, I think I might have
bought 'em both and fixed them up.
Oh well, I will find some way to use it...
Thanks,
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.