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3:45 am
March 22, 2010
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I had this beauty about 5 years, a friend restored it. . it's about 1925 vintage, after a call to South Bend. I traded a 25# Little Giant yet never used the lathe. The friend who restored it was a body and fender man and did a primo job. Finally sold it to get it out of the shop, I have a small Altas bench top lathe and does everything needed. Kind of miss it, it was so nice. Oh well move on, there is always a different tool out there. I think it had about a 12 inch throw and about 36" between centers.
Got to make sure the pictures are centered or Grant will have a hissy fit.
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March 22, 2010
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March 22, 2010
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We had South Bend a gap lathe, perhaps 16" in the maintenance shop at Subase Bangor, it used leather belts on the flat step pulleys like the one in the pictures above, the motor was under the stepped pully. They were made for ship board or submarine use and the one in the shop was about 24" between centers, it didint have high spindle speeds but was real sweet to use, the leather belts had a kinda slap, slap, slap noise to it while running. The Navy kept recycling the old WWII or earlier lathes from scrapped ships and subs even in the Nuke era. I'm sure there were other brand of lathes beside South Bends, the shop southbend is the only one that I had experience with operating, and a couple times went with a machinist to adjust something on the lathe aboard a boat. We always worked in pairs, whether machinist, electrician, or electronic turky, (thats me).
I'd trade my wife's Honda to get one of those 16" gap lathes, not that I'd ever use it, but don't tell her that.
5:22 pm
August 14, 2010
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Wow, that's gorgeous! Love the pinstriping.
Here's my little South Bend 9" Jr. I do have the compound slide, that's a special fixture. I got a Heavy 10 in the spring, but I haven't got it installed yet, because I want to put it where this one is and I keep using this one.
The 9" swing is plenty' I'm upgrading to get power cross-feed and because this one was lacking change gears. I also like the bigger hole through the spindle on the Heavy 10. I mostly use the lathe for turning tenons or center drilling parts.
The fixture on the cross slide holds small shafts for cutting keyways. It gets set at right angles to the lathe and an end mill goes in the chuck on the head stock. It's handy for occasionally building machines that almost work. :banghead:
My Lathe by fciron, on Flickr
Oh, it's for sale! Located in Kentucky.
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