Monarch Lathes Beauty and the Beast 

We are on the same page there Dale. Monarch even sent me the sales paper work on the Lathe from 1954 but I forgot to ad it to the video. Wishing you a Merry Christmas. Gary

@@OldIronMachineWorks that is so nice of them to send you paperwork. And to say the lever fork broke Nice tech support

Thanks Doug, Looking forward to seeing your new machine. Merry Christmas. Gary

Dean, hope you are having a great Christmas. Gary

These prices make me feel ill.

Thanks Max, It sucks that so much good stuff gets scraped out these days. I try to save what I can. Have a great Christmas. Gary

Is that the way it is in the States? Five years ago that may have been how it was here in the UK , but with the slowdown in China and them not wanting every piece of scrap iron in the world in the past few years, scrappers are not going to want to pay over the odds for say 10000lbs of iron. They know what the price is on a day to day basis and if you offer say 50 dollars over what they want to pay to turn a profit they're going to pull out at the profit line, so 50 bucks gets you the lathe in my opinion.

@@samrodian919 Somewhere around $ 300 Australian per ton for scrap .

I definitely agree. Have a great Christmas. Gary

Thanks Ray, Wishing you and your family a Great Christmas. Gary

Thanks Chuck, Have a Great Christmas Day. Gary

Monarch or leblonde lodge and shipley, beats anything made in China

Thank you Eric, Merry Christmas

I have already made the repair. Check it out when you get a chance. It’s titled. Monarch lathe shift fork repair. I appreciate you stopping by the channel. Gary

Thank you Harold. You also have a great Christmas and new year. Gary

Look on craiglist, you'll see them pop up once and a wile really cheap. If I had the room I'd but a small one and bridgport As well as a small saw just to make stuff for my own use and or prototype stuff and or make tools. I choose woodworking but a working machine shop works too. I think some of the lathes they had in highschools would be big enough im not looking to do production work. Did enough of that in a machine shop. We didn't have a mill in school so its a tool id need to learn But for metal and woodworking it would come in handy. Yes I mill wood on it why not? We milled plastics on them in the shop almost every material.

Thank you Chris, I don't think it will be to bad to repair. Hope you and your family are having a great Christmas. Gary

Everett, I definitely was not looking for another Lathe, but for that price there was no way I could pass it up. So far it looks like it is going to be a great Lathe. Thanks for stopping by. Gary

John, thanks for the subscription and check it out my videos. Gary

Thank you Rupert, hope your having a great Christmas weekend. Gary

Great thank you. Cant believe the price of that lathe. Amazing

Thanks Allan, You also have a great Christmas day. Gary

Thanks Mike, Merry Christmas. Gary

Tom, If you did that you would have to ad onto your new shop :) Merry Christmas, Gary

@@OldIronMachineWorks That is okay. I have the acreage. 😁

Tom, I may need to bum a ride along with Gary...but I'm out of space..

Doozer, did not find the piece that was broke off, whoever was in the lathe already removed the broken piece. I believe that nut was put in there intentionally to keep it in low range. I do a lot of cast-iron repair jobs, Will be a easy repair. Thanks for stopping by. Gary

Otto, It looks like a easy repair. I will have to take a couple covers off the front but should be able to get the fork out pretty easy. I do a lot of cast iron repair work so I will just repair it. I was holding off on putting out this video because I have so much other content for videos, just hard to find the time to put them together. To be honest this Lathe was more of a opportunity buy and I don't want to put it in front of my other projects. Plus im going to have to store it until I get my new shop. Just no room. But as I work on it I will share my Progress. Wishing you a great Christmas Day. Gary

@@OldIronMachineWorks You know doing cast Iron repair would also be a good video . I know there are different types of cast iron , would you braze it or weld it ?

@@ottostasi8226 I would braze it. I am not a fan of nickel rod even though I have used plenty of it. A proper braze job is more than sufficient. I have been doing a large brazing job recently, keep your eye out for that video.

@@OldIronMachineWorks Will do , thank you .

Im going to bet they are perfect The old production stuff was built to take an asskicking and still run.

Andy, I'm very pleased in the condition of the ways. But every Lathe I ever had with hardened ways hold up much better. I remember one of my first Lathes I bought was a 1940s 22inch swing Monarch. Bigger than this one. I don't think it had hardened way and it clearly showed ware. But you learn to compensate for it. You and your Family also have a great Christmas. Gary

That project will not happen overnight, but yes I will definitely film any progress. Thanks for stopping by. Gary

I agree, nothing special about this one, Thanks for stopping by.

@@OldIronMachineWorks I sure wouldn't say it not special. It's an impressing machine.

Turlock CA

@@OldIronMachineWorks Funny I missed it - very close to me! Remember the auction company?

Chris, I think it was put there to keep it in compound low, same as you were thinking. Hope you are having a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by. Gary

@@OldIronMachineWorks being an old fart i hibernate for Christmas, so yup had a great one. Hope Santa brought what you most desired..ATB c

Rusti, Hope you are having a great Christmas. Gary

Not sure exactly, I was thinking it was Turlock machine shop. I understand the company was at that same location when they bought the Lathe in 1955. Gary

His Lathe was Very nice, pulling the cover off the head stock it looked like new. But I agree with you, I like Original. You know what you got. Don't know what the hole was for but don't think it was strong enough for any kind of lift mechanism. Hope you have a great Christmas. Gary

@@OldIronMachineWorks Maybe he stuck the chuck key in it or used it to change gears after the arm came off the lever. My uncle used to buy that stuff at auctions all the time to clean up paint and sell. He got a big collection of manual machines but we also had a lot of cncs back then you programed them with tape. Now you plug in cad programs. The machine does all the math. Next versions will butter your toast and bring you coffee I only ran jobs someone else set up for me. But I learned what I did know in high school shop class. They call that big lathe a tool room model? Well we did have bigger lathes but that one was not tiny by any stretch im going to bet the 4 jaw chuck weights 400 lbs. Thats a pretty good size lathe. Id like to have one 1/4 its size. That and a mill. They would come in handy woodworking. Yes thats right. Just think what you can make with metal steel and electronics. Ask my wife she's always batching about all the clutter. Omg and just go looking for one item! Been all over the house looking for a soldering iron thats 15 watt. I found the small one it won't work for what I'm doing. Won't get hot enough.

Yes, this Lathe looks to be in really good shape. One of the first Lathes I ever bought was back in 1985, I was 25 years old and the Lathe was a 22 inch swing Monarch that was from the 40s. Bigger than this Lathe. Been buying and selling ever since. So much gets scraped out because there's not enough People out there that can use it or willing to pay for it. I would like to save it all but know I cant. Have a great Christmas. Gary