Show us your South Bend Lathe

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Nels said:

We take great pride in our machines!

This is the thread to post photos of your beloved South Bend lathes, show "before" and "after photos and make our mouths water with the tooling and accessories you have accumulated for your machine.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but some captions would be awfully nice too!

So come on....let's see what you got!


Best,

Nelson

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Nels

Have tried to get a reply from Weldingrod1 regards converting his SB late to a D-1 spindle in his thread posted 12-02-13 at 02:32PM, but have been unsuccessful. I dropped a note in his Visitors box as well. Do you know if Weldingrod1 is still active?


Canuck75

Me again, updating previous post on my SB 9A. Bought this taper attachment the other week through a Kijiji ad, got it installed and seems to be working just fine. Paint on the purchased parts doesn't match whats left of the original paint on the lathe, but not going to bother going to the trouble of making one match the other.



Best,
T2

Picked her up a little more than a year ago. 13"x40" south bend with camlock spindle. Bought it on eBay for $2200 with the intent to rebuild, but once I got it home and leveled up I found it was still tight and accurate. It came with the follow and steady rest 6" 3 jaw and 8" 4 jaw. I picked up the 5c collet spindle adapter and 3mt spindle adapter. Also just bought a 8" 3 jaw for her.

Sweet looking SB Joe. I'd love to have that model in that good of condition.

Steve

Just picked up a Heavy 10 lathe last night. Its had alot of use over its life span, but has alot of life left in it. Came with some good tooling as well. Collect closer, bison 6" chuck, tail stock, taper attachment, live center, steady rest, a bunch of tool holders, and some face plates. I am going to mount the AXA qctp I have on my harbor freight 9x20 on this as well. Best of all I stole it for 900.00!!! I just need to figure out a phase converter or vfd for it, I dont know much about them yet tho. So stoked on replacing my China lathe with this one.

My South Bend 10L isn't new but it has recently been updated a little. It was rebuilt last fall, but it finally got a new DRO, a paint job last week and a new spot in the shop. It's kinda like getting a new machine!

I see a whole bunch of shops that I would like to visit. Thanks for sharing.

fretsman said:

You folks have some fantastic looking machines, and work areas as well!

Just for contrast, I thought I'd post a few pics of my SB9A to show what the uglier versions of these machines look like I'll even include a pic of my super-fancy home-made lever tailstock )

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Thanks,
Dave

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Hi Fretsman,
came across this old post and thought I'd ask if you had any details on your 'super-fancy home-made lever tailstock'. I've been pondering this as a project for my 10k for quite some time and have spent (too many) hours scouring the web for design ideas. I like that yours does not incorporate a handwheel and appears to have LOTS of travel. any info you could give me would be most appreciated!
Thanks,

This is my South Bend project. It's a 16" swing Model 117H from 1947 with a 12' bed. This picture shows it still bolted to the shipping cradle welded up by the previous owner. That was a nice touch as I managed to unload it by myself without worrying about breaking that long bed casting. The paint is bad but it's complete down to the taper attachment and collet closer that were never mounted, all the gears are good with no missing teeth and it came with some tooling. The only damage I've noticed so far during tea down is a broken drum switch mount. I'm going to cut the mount off the conduit and replace the drum switch with a multi-button industrial enclosure for the push buttons and speed pot for my VFD. There is minimal bed wear and I bought the rebuild manual on eBay along with a complete set of oil wicks, way wiper felts and apron gasket from the same source. I've ordered some reproduction name and data plates on eBay as well. About the only thing I have left to order is a new flat belt and a new set of Vee belts from the motor to the counter shaft.

My old lathes are an Atlas-Craftsman 6x18 and an Atlas-Craftsman 12x36. The taper attachment of the SB16 weighs more than the 6x18. I'm looking forward getting it back in operation.

Please ignore the messy shop. I never seem to have the time to clean it properly and keep bringing stuff in faster than I can get it stowed away.