Mazak SQT-15M nearly free to a good home

We're getting a Mazak QT-200 to match the other one we have (for shared programming and speed) and getting rid of the good old 1995 SQT-15M. It's been used for plastics all of its life, has a fairly new spindle, is in perfect operating condition (still in use every day). If you want it, just make an offer, and pay the freight/rigging. Our rigger will have it after the new machine comes (tentatively scheduled for 12/12 but we think it'll be late), so it will be easy to ship out. It's been such a great machine, we'd rather not send it go to the scrap yard but have no room here. We have all the maintenance records and could do a walk round video if anyone wants that.

Where is this located?

Profile says North Carolina.

Might want to clearly define "nearly free"

Did you buy it new? Pics, what tooling comes with the lathe? What size breaker does it call for?

Dacrylic said:

We're getting a Mazak QT-200 to match the other one we have (for shared programming and speed) and getting rid of the good old 1995 SQT-15M. It's been used for plastics all of its life, has a fairly new spindle, is in perfect operating condition (still in use every day). If you want it, just make an offer, and pay the freight/rigging. Our rigger will have it after the new machine comes (tentatively scheduled for 12/12 but we think it'll be late), so it will be easy to ship out. It's been such a great machine, we'd rather not send it go to the scrap yard but have no room here. We have all the maintenance records and could do a walk round video if anyone wants that.

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Can you email me [email protected]

The Mazak SQT's of the 90's were tanks! Huge, heavy slant-bed frame, huge integral spindles, huge turrets, box-way tailstock/sub-spindle. The machines have user-friendly ergonomics: easy to reach into, control is slanted forward slightly and at the perfect height, and the slant-bed and large turret make for easy tool access and tremendous clearance between stations.

Versus the well-known QT15 of yesteryear, which was more compact, had a flat-bed-design (you're more bent-over messing with tools), and the smaller turrets have less clearance from station-to-station.

An SQT15 will run on a 60-amp breaker, you may have to slow your spindle accel/decel parameters a bit.

If the SQT powers up and runs at all, it's definitely worth the investment for the small shop that could use it!

ToolCat

Chips Everywhere said:

Did you buy it new? Pics, what tooling comes with the lathe? What size breaker does it call for?

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Not sure where to post this, but we sold the SQT-15M to a local shop.

Machine sold. Thanks everyone for your interest. And Merry Christmas to all you metalworking craftsmen (and -women)!