Sherline Lathe & Mill

[Hobine]

I've located a used Sherline Ultimate lathe/mill set-up with lots of tooling. The guy is asking $1600 for everything. On Sherline's site it lists for $2400.

Anyone with Sherline equipment think this is a decent deal?

Thanks

[warriorsimi]

i don't have a sherline i have a unimat 1000 sl but if i was going to spend that much i would look at something bigger my unimat is a bit smaller than the sherline but is also a lathe that converts to mill it is just too small and the sherline is not much bigger.i have seen some smithy 3 into 1 combos for really cheap.

[klabeaume]

I bought a used sherline lathe and mill with degital readout and a bunch of extras for 1100. I feel like they are great accurate little machines. My only complaint is size, I frequently run out of travel but I would buy them again. I really enjoy having them. Any more questions feel free to ask. 1600 sounds reasonable depending on the extras included.

[Hobine]

It comes with tons of tooling, don't think I'd need to add much. I'm down to 1300 on the price.

[klabeaume]

Originally Posted by Hobine

It comes with tons of tooling, don't think I'd need to add much. I'm down to 1300 on the price.

If it looks like it is clean and is taken care of I'd say it's a good deal. I really enjoy mine. it's nice to leave the dremel in the tool box and fix stuff correctly.

[Crawling Calvin]

I have a Shelrine 8-directional head CNC converted to horizontal milling on a custom setup. It is a nice machine for small hobby work and sure beats a dremel and a drill press. That being said don't expect it to be like the bigger machines but if you can work around that and your patient it is handy to have.

In my case it can never cut fast enough

[Hobine]

Picked them up the other day. Both the lathe and mill pretty much look brand new. Also came with a new rotary table, tilting base, boring attachement, milling vise, 3 jaw chuck, collets, end mills and a bunch of other stuff. Even gave me two home machinist books.

I made a link mount for my son's RS10 yesterday, I was happy with the amount of aluminum I could remove with one pass. The problem now is the operator! It is pretty fun though.

[Crawling Calvin]

any photos?

One helpful tip is if you have a tiny air compressor, is to have it spray air at the tool, just be careful since metal can land everywhere you don't want it to. Helps prevent chips from re-welding to the work and making it look bad