RIT's Oliver Lathe on eBay

[crzypete]

An old friend on eBay.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 7588726825

It's funny how times change. A number of us sweated to move this badboy into the shop. Now someone else can sweat to move it back out.

Pete

[nektai]

It sucked moving that thing in and I would hate to have to move it out. I wonder if it will sell?

[crzypete]

It has a bid, so it will sell, the question is for how much? I would think there are not many oliver's that are 8' between centers around.

Pete

[crzypete]

Final price: $1633.88.
I will try to post a picture for when the auction disapears. It was an oliver 20c babbit bearing machine with a nice retrofit transmission.

Pete

[jugadro]

So the good ol' Oliver beast leaves today. I'll try to remember to take photos of the move. I hope the ramp by the Bevier Gallery can take the weight! We can't get through the Ceramics studio due to their current configuration.

[nektai]

Can a truck pull up in-front of the gallery entrance or will the lathe have to be rolled to the parking lot? I am looking forward to the pictures of the lathe in transit.

[Guest]

We ran it out by the gallery. I backed the dude's trailer up the walkway and parked it in the tunnel between the photo (7B) and foundations (7A) buildings. Nobody bothers you when you have trucks - especially since RIT is constantly under construction. You can park pretty much anywhere. The move went super-smoothly - much easier than I had anticipated.

Photos are on the way!

[crzypete]

Thanks for the update, can't wait to see the photos.

Pete

[crzypete]

Here's a pic of the RIT oliver for posterity.

[Bweick7]

I finally completed the circa 1909 Oliver 20C pattern lathe this year. The thread is on SMC since I can not upload pictures onto this server. The process is there as well-
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment. ... 1188661290

the thread is: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread. ... ght=oliver

and what a project it was- Hope all is well Jared- Still have that 6x10x 6' piece of mahogany - thanks Jared
Brian

[crzypete]

Brian, I wanted to see these pics andcheck out the rebuild, but the other forum wants me to register, and has not confirmed my registration, so I still haven't seen it. Perhaps you could emal me a couple of pics and I will ppost it here.

Looking forward to seeing an old friend fixed up.

Pete

[crzypete]

I finally was able to track down some pics of the oliver lathe in its fully rebuilt condition. Thanks to Will, a current RIT student who forwarded these to me.

Nice rebuild job Brian.

[Bweick7]

I was running the lathe and the motor blew up, the back legs fell off and it went through the shop floor down into the basement~ seriously,~
I moved the endex plate off of the drive spindle, when i started that thing , it literally sounds like an F15 starting her engins ~ so I bored out the center to accept the outboard shaft diamiter and a threaded hub is used to lock into place ~ much better and really quite now. I still have problems inserting ictures here, what do you do to get an mage off of your comp and into your thread.
Brian