UniMat Lathe find "fully loaded"

[mrburls]

Okay I couldn't hold back on gloating about this find. I bought as slightly used, but once I got home and started unpacking everything I soon realized this had never been used at all. All the accessories were still wrapped in that brown oily paper. Motor never mounted to lathe. Still more things not even pictured.
What really gave it away was the belts were still sealed in original bag. I thought I was going to have to find some belts for the lathe. Most everything has original boxes with parts.

 

[Curly]

Let me be the first to say "I hate you!"

 

[jrista]

Well, next to "I hate you" I guess must be the obligatory "Daaaamn! Congrats on the perfect find!!"

 

[KMCloonan]

I hate to congratulate you on the perfect find?

 

[egnald]

Very Cool - Very! When I was in college about a thousand years ago, a friend of mine had that same model. He used it mostly in it's milling machine orientation but also converted it to the lathe for certain parts. He was really into building miniature steam engines from scratch. I remember his crowning achievement was a small engine where he even made the nuts and bolts from scratch.

He had it on a desk in his bedroom on their family farm. He said his mom was always upset with him because the curly's would get into his carpet and were nearly impossible to get out.

Sweet find. - Dave

 

[leehljp]

JACKPOT! Congratulations!
I know you will enjoy "playing" with that!

 

[mark james]

Sweet. Beyond all the jealousy... NICE! But is is also great that this will be used as it was intended. Have FUN!

 

[mrburls]

Sweet. Beyond all the jealousy... NICE! But is is also great that this will be used as it was intended. Have FUN!

There are some pieces there I don't know that I'll use like the table saw and scroll saw. I'm still trying to find out if there is a joiner that was to go with it also because there is a cutter for that also which I probable wouldn't use either.
But I think I'll keep everything together as one SWEET unit.

 

[Smokey S]

WOW! Looks as if you have knocked a home run!………Smokey

 

[sbwertz]

My dad had one of these....he designed and built radio controlled model airplanes.

 

[sbwertz]

My dad had one of these....he designed and built radio controlled model airplanes. The biggest one he built had a nine foot wingspan and ran on a weed-eater engine.