I have one of those as well. A fully restored South Bend bench top lathe with a quick change gearbox, collet closer, a full set of 3C collets in a hardwood sequestered box, 4 jaw chuck, 3 jaw chuck, face plate dog plate and even an Aloris AXA quick change tool post with a complete set of tool holders. Took me over a year to restore it. Bought it in Cleveland from a defunct job shop. Was sitting in the corner, filthy and I paid 100 bucks for it. Irun Aloris tool posts on all my lathes, like with anything, you get what you pay for.
I also have a fully restored South Bend cabinet shaper that just sits but I liked it when I saw it and it was local so in the back of my pickup truck it went. It was a bit more than 100 bucks, more like 500 but restoration was easy and they are very, very rare. Lots of Atlas cabinet shapers on Flea Bay and elsewhere and most of them are beat to hell and restoring the ways and hand scraping them is a real chore plus beating on them destroys the back gears and the ram travel.
2 LeBlond Servo Shift large, spindle bore lathes, 2 bridgeports, one Versa Trak one series one, a Kent ultra high precision tool room surface grinder that can hold 50 millionths, a Lodger and Shipley hydraulic arbor press (30 ton), a mint condition Atlas (Kalamazoo) floor lathe (Im the second owner, the first was my late uncle who willed it to me) fully tooled but I retained the lantern toolpost because it came with a full set of Williams tool holders, like I said, everything is fully tooled and I and my 2 part time employees use them all, and I demand respect for my machines or you don't work for me anymore. I also have an overhead crane that runs the length of the shop. It's an IR air operated chain hoist on an IR trolley, 5 ton capacity. Main use is changing the oil in my bikes so I don't have to get on the concrete floor which is heated with in floor PEX heat and air conditioned in the summer. Various welders in all disciplines as well a computer controlled Hyper Therm plasma cutter and a CNC plasma table, I find it easier and cheaper to cut my own parts from sheet steel. Took me over 30 years to amass all of it, many auctions and many trips to Dessil Tool in Lansing and Detroit for new machines and tooling.
That and 2 large frame Kubotas and all the hay tools, spreaders both granular and liquid, 90 inch Lucknow snowblower, loaders for both plus 3 buckets and a stump grinder, new round baler and a 3 year old NH discbine and a Kuhn Masterdrive rotary rake single rotor I just bought (sold a twin rotor) on Tractor house and broke even 2 shredders, one an 8.5 foot and the other a 15 foot bat wing, front mount repurposed commercial snow plow with power angle welded to a bobcat style hitch plate (both my tractors have SSQA's) One is aa deluxe cab model, the other is an open station. I got a lot of stuff and a hefty insurance bill as well. That don't include the barns or the 2 rentals I own or the cars or trucks or the Kaufman 28 foot GN and it's 99% paid off. including the farm and it's 142 tillable acres.
