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So a friend of mine was going to scrap this monster lathe with tooling and i couldn't let that happen. I asked how much he wanted for it and his reply was if you can get it out of my garage you can have it for free. I tried to offer him some money but he said no way so what i think i'm going to do is get him something nice for xmas. The next order of business was to figure out how to get this monster from his house to mine. I made a call to my buddy who has a propane tank crane attached to his truck and asked if he could help and he said no problem. I wish i would have taken some pictures of the crane lifting it but i forgot too. Everything went very smoothly considering the lathe weighs in at 650lbs. Now it sits in my garage waiting for another friend to come do the electrical work. Here is some info on the lathe it is a 10x36 rockwell lathe 220v single phase variable speed with power feed which is broken. It was made in Massachusetts or Connecticut in the early 70's. Here is a link to a page where someone rebuilt the same unit as mine. Anyway if anybody has any tips or links to share or something i should check out feel free to post or pm me. Also if anyone has a power feed unit for this i would be happy to purchase it from them mine has a few broken gears. Thanks for looking:beer: