You know your own needs better than anyone, but I would suggest you seriously consider keeping hold of the gears and the four jaw; I reckon you may find you need them sooner than you think. Losing the ability to screwcut really reduces the amount of projects you can get to grips with. I didn't think I'd do much but I reckon I do it every couple of months or so now.

The four jaw is invaluable for holding square or odd shaped stock, or even just getting round objects properly true (something that a 3 jaw is not brilliant at). That may not be an issue right now, but who knows what little jobs may lurk on the horizon….

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+ 1 for that if you haven’t got it you can’t use it and as for changewheels NEVER part with them!

Everything there I would consider as invaluable, absolutely necessary. However if you sold any of it you won't get very much money.

JA

It looks like you have a quick change gearbox so most of the extra gears are not essential but you need to check the metric conversion set and appropriate documentation to determine what is needed wo cover ALL metric and imperial threads, and BA. Then the excess gears can be sold.
it looks like the item attached to the vertical slide may be a gear cutter relieving tool so you are unlikely to use it and can sell it.
While I would like to suggest that if you don't need a capable lathe you sell it as a nice package and just get one of the many unequipped lathes on ebay it would probably just be bought by a garage trader to asset strip.

Like everyone else I would say keep it – with the possible exception of the boring bars – there are more modern equivalents available – but as you will not get much for them I would not think it is worth selling them. Ebay fees and postage would zap any profit.

The Metric conversion set is essential as many more things are now metric that when your lathe was new.

The change gears are useful for fine feeds as well as screwcutting.

As to selling the lathe and getting another – yours is the desirable Tri-Lever model and I would keep that too.

The OP has got a QC gearbox so most of the change gears are surplus to requirements so they can be sold on.

Tony

This is not intended to be unkind, but it seems you know very little about lathework. Most of the kit you have listed is very useful stuff. I would suggest you defer selling anything, until you have learned to use the lathe and have some experience under your belt.

At that stage you will be able to value the items from your newly gained experience, as being useful / non useful. You can then dispose of the stuff that you know you are not going to use. You are lucky to have a fully kitted out lathe to begin with. My first Myford came with nothing but the essentials and it cost me a small fortune to equip it. If you sell the "so called surplus kit" now. You will probably regret it in the future.

Andrew.

+1 to Andrew's advice. Slow down. At this stage of the game BASS has a bunch of mysterious accessories and no idea whether they're useful to him or not!

My advice is benefit from the experience of other Model Engineers. We know when new owners get stuck into using lathes in anger, they usually discover, step by step, a long list of needs beyond the obvious. Then they have to acquire the necessary accessories, and it's often painfully slow and expensive.

BASS has the opposite problem – a complete outfit put together over the years by someone else. Tempting to sell the unwanted bits and pieces, but no-one knows what's unwanted yet. And if stuff is sold on willy-nilly, it's likely to be a while before the mistake is understood. One of the worst things to happen in a workshop is finding hard to find gear should never have been disposed of. The realisation is remarkably unpleasant!

The best person to decide what to keep is BASS, but not today. Next year's BASS will have a much better idea of what should be kept. Experience using the lathe will change his opinions!

There's another game. If BASS has no intention of using the lathe and just wants to make a profit, then the best way of maximising the take is to separate everything out and sell it part by part on an auction site (like ebay). I advise BASS not to tell the forum if he's doing that : profiteering is very unpopular in the Model Engineering community!

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 11:04:34