These are considered Second Operation lathes. They were a minimal option lathe for producing the back side of parted off production runs that met the need without all the frills to make capital budgets stretch to more spindles turning. They do not hold much home shop market value, but some industry finds a limited use. I've seen them sit in used machine dealers for years without a bite. Often parted out where common to the old chuckers and HLVH models.
Some were even sold without the bed. Sought after since they can be placed on a mill bed and used for crude CNC lathes among other things.
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