Thread: Vicmarc VL175 on ebay

The one on ebay has the outboard attachment so add about $800.00 to the $4400 so compare the $3000 to a new price of $5200.....57%

Outboard turning stand retails for about $550. Curved rests would cost around $150 - $200 the lot.

Just having ordered a new VL175, I thought I'd add in MTBW.

I bought my VL300 in 2006. I only really started to use it after came up in March or April this year. I may have spent say 100 hours turning on it.

I paid $4500 for it, new price is now over $7000. (I accept the new machine have some better features).

So if I sold it right now, it would be a reasonable buy at say 60%. But that % of what I paid or replacement?

More so, at least in my mind, it is good value in that it hasn't done any hard grunt work. Except when arrives.

But second hand is exactly that. You don't know that my VL300 is in great condition. may have been production turning on it hard for 3 solid years.

And I do believe things wear, as Big Shed has intimated. And no 1 or 2 year guarantee.

Now if I was to say buy Calm's 750 Stubby, that would be different. I've seen the care he takes with it, wiping the beds down, treating it better than he does himself.

I don't like lotteries.

If my new VL175 comes and the head and tailstocks don't align, I think I can quite rightly complain long and hard. But how do you do that over the net, sight unseen?

And some of us are not as handy as others. When I have to change the bearings on my lathe, I will be asking for help.....

I saw an old VL200 today, still rock solid. I don't understand how the belts / pulleys works (the handle arrangement for variable speed).

But I did notice the chisels. None sharp. Lots of scrapers and stacks of dust. Which equals hard use in my mind.

There are bargains out there, no question. Turners are an aging community. Most take the habit up late in life. And things get sold cheaply. Very cheaply.

But I'd want to see anything first.

IME good lathes don't come up all that often and not cheaply.

Turners graduate over time to the good stuff and then settle to using it until their bods fail or they die. The lathe is then most likely to be sold through their club and never make it onto the open market.

Fred warned about the motor and the armature wearing out. I don't understand the diff between these not being a tech person. Good wiring shouldn't burn out but when it does how much does rewiring cost? Spindles potentially can get bent but how many do? And in the case of this VL175, at $4.4 k new, what would Victor charge for a replacement unit and what percentage of that new price would it be?

It's turned up again, this time buy it now for $2750 or make an offer.

I'm trying to work out what I could sell to buy this thing - I don't care if it's a 12 hour drive away. Ultimately I don't think LOML's patience would run that far though!

I genuinely don't understand why it hasn't been sold yet. From the looks of things it's a good solid lathe going for what appears to be a good price?!?

Cheers,
Dave

Ebay as a market is a bit tight at the moment and one has just gone for much less than $2000 so its set the standard.

Originally Posted by hughie

Ebay as a market is a bit tight at the moment and one has just gone for much less than $2000 so its set the standard.

Fair call. Was that the VL200 that might have been an accidental buy-it-now?

In any case, I have noticed that this one is an older model, .75kw vs current 1.1kw, and I don't know what other differences there would be. Though I do reckon that 1hp on a vicmarc may be slightly different to the 1hp on my MC-1100

Cheers,
Dave