Bought myself a lathe.....bargain!!

[irving2008]

I have been a bit quiet lately but thats because I have been playing with my new lathe....



Decided that after pricing up some of the parts for my router which I am building that I would get a lathe and make them myself.

Its a Leinen MLZ 4S, a bit old but a bloody good machine.

Came with a couple of 3 jaw chucks, a 4 jaw chuck, full set of collets from 1" down to 1/32", spare 3 phase motor, about 40 old style turning tools, a quick change toolholder (that I fitted last weekend), full set of gears for screw cutting, 3 jacob chucks with a few morse taper reducers and another box full of goodies that I have not got round to looking through yet.

But in one of the box's of bits I found these...



THK linear slides and a selection of small ballscrews with nuts! Bonus!

Been making my motor mounts and bearing holders on it and apart from the original leather main flat drive belt snapping on Friday night after re-tensioning which I replaced today with a new modern equivalent it runs like a dream.

Have a guess how much.....

Wait for it...

£200 for the lot!

mumbles under breath, you lucky s*d....
great find... didn't see that come upon fleabay

[HiltonSteve]

mumbles under breath, you lucky s*d....
great find... didn't see that come upon fleabay

It was'nt on fleabay, it was from a chap I know who lives 2 miles down the road. Been in his garage for about 10 years and he has never run it because he does not have 3 phase. Just wanted it out of the way.

Spoke with Tony from lathes.co.uk today and he told me that when they were originally made in the 60's they sold for about £3000! Thats about £30,000 in todays money!

[John S]

I think you were robbed................