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1989 southwestern mobile Military Welding/ machine shop, $63,000, Edmonton, AB

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Interesting - big lathe, no mill.
Now I want the manuals for this beast.
 
Man! I have a lot of questions! Like how did they get that from the military? Did they just find that at the side of the road? Or is it being sold by the military? Does the military sell stuff on Kijiji??? .....
 
Canadium said:
Man! I have a lot of questions! Like how did they get that from the military? Did they just find that at the side of the road? Or is it being sold by the military? Does the military sell stuff on Kijiji??? .....
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It was probably sold through crown assets who disposes of all the stuff the feds wore out or don't need anymore either someone is flipping it or was using it and is going in a different direction.
I bet the right person could make a great living with that setup in Alberta.
 
John Conroy said:
OK now, that is very COOL!
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I love it!

PaulL said:
Interesting - big lathe, no mill.
Now I want the manuals for this beast.
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Both machines have their place, but if I could only choose one - it would be a lathe.

If you find the manuals, please share! I bet they would make fantastic bedside readers!

combustable herbage said:
I bet the right person could make a great living with that setup in Alberta.
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You are prolly right! Awesome shop on wheels!

Can't pull a plow with it though..... LOL!
 
Cool. I've been thinking about building something like that to solve my space problem. Would get all my welding and fab stuff out of the garage shop to make room for a few more and bigger machine tools. And also allow me to do mobile work.
 
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Now that puts a twist in levelling a lathe. Would be interesting to see just how that lathe is mounted in there. Can anyone tell what kind/make of lathe that is?
Sure, you can pull a Plow with it, put a shaft in the chuck, wrap some cable on shaft, tie to plow, start lathe turning. WELL , looky there, we's plowing Bbob! Might be a bit of messing around with the 8 bottom roll over, but hey.
Wonder if can weld and power the lathe etc. at the same time?
 
Bandit said:
Now that puts a twist in levelling a lathe. Would be interesting to see just how that lathe is mounted in there.
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This is a very interesting observation Bandit. I believe that levelling a lathe is really a misnomer. Lathes don't really need to be level to be properly aligned. The axis of the different components (tailstock, bed, saddle, and headstock) just need to aligned and the easiest way to do some of that alignment is by using a level. But it's my belief that a lathe can be setup on a ship or a trailer in such a way that all the systems are properly aligned. There are even some of our members who dislike using the word level because it can be misleading.

I do agree that it would be most interesting to see how it was all done on this lathe on that trailer!

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Sure, you can pull a Plow with it, put a shaft in the chuck, wrap some cable on shaft, tie to plow, start lathe turning. WELL , looky there, we's plowing Bbob! Might be a bit of messing around with the 8 bottom roll over, but hey.
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Too funny! I still want a tracked tank to plow with. Preferably one with a big turret cannon! I'd paint it John Deere Green, and have a total riot!
 
I would think that thing is a standard part of the equipment line-up for an armoured brigade & there is a brigade statioed in Edmonton so this probably "yeared out" and was surplused .
There used to be a lot of mobile machine shop trailers in Ab. to service the multitude of rural gas plants we used to have. These plants always had a 30 day "turn-around" once a year for refits. these mobile shops were a compusory part of the turn around crew because of the many different sizes of rotating shafting used by banks of different sized pumps.& compressors.
 
As I page through Kijiji, Craigslist, gov't surplus sites. etc., etc., etc., I run across ads that even my rookie ass knows are not a deal, nor a bargain. That said, I sometimes post 'em anyways just to read the discussion they (may) generate. This is such an example. Thx for the replies.
 
Yes, I agree about the levelling of lathe, which points perhaps to a kind of floating system, where the lathe is a very ridged unit on a somewhat floating bed/block/frame.
Propably should get a "military tracked "unit with the green camo, save on some paint. Not going down the pea shooter in the turret trail.
JustaDB, its all good, everyone's idea of a deal/ bargain is different, anything can be sold if it has the right price, at the right time. And it always interesting to see what's out there.
 
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combustable herbage said:
It was probably sold through crown assets who disposes of all the stuff the feds wore out or don't need anymore either someone is flipping it or was using it and is going in a different direction.
I bet the right person could make a great living with that setup in Alberta.
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Not a Canadian thing. Bought surplus out of the Excited States. Have seen others listed for sale, except the others didn't have the years worth of rust on everything...

Hardly anyone in the Canadian Military has machines as big as that. They simply don't do any work that calls for them. Certainly not for field use!

 
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