1940 South Bend 11" 111B 105014 IQR Rebuild By Ulma Doctor

Best part of the rebuild for me, you bring a machine back to tight, smooth,and accurate by your hand, following your plan. Does it get more rewarding? I can't wait to find my oldschool honey to restore.
 
Thank you Lee,:)
I agree 100%-
nothing feels better to me than to take "Junk" and turn it into metaphorical gold.:grin big:
 
Hey Mike.

I glad to see you're on your way with the restoration of the Old Lady, it's nice to know the history and even though you
don't realize it, your efforts of restoration of this particular SB will be a contribution to the history of the war archives so that we
should NEVER FORGET " that there where "THOSE WHO GAVE SOME AND THEN THERE WERE THOSE WHO GAVE ALL" .
I know your restoration will top notch, as expected you started with the motor first. Maybe you can sell the wasps
hive on E-Bay and tell them it is an ancient hive from WWII
The best of luck, take care..................Kerry
 
Thanks Kerry, always good to hear from you!
The bee-hive has long since been gone , but i like your thinking!!!!:high 5:
i have so many irons in the fire that it's hard to spend much meaningful time on any one project.
So i hunt and peck and try to schedule some time on my First Love, Henrietta.
She never really leaves my thoughts. I was able to put my hands on her again this morning doing some more scraping....
 
Can't wait to see how this turns out, not many 11" SB's out there.

Maybe this will inspire me to scrape mine. At least the cross slide anyway, scraping a 6" bed wouldn't be fun!
 
Can't wait to see how this turns out, not many 11" SB's out there.

Maybe this will inspire me to scrape mine. At least the cross slide anyway, scraping a 6" bed wouldn't be fun!


Thanks for reading Andre,
i wouldn't want to hand scrape a 6" bed either, but Biax Scraping is a whole lot easier.
the cross slide and compound will be time consuming but necessary for poor ol' Henrietta.
she got whooped but good, Have no fear i'll throw everything i got at her,
she deserves that much at least!
thanks for commenting.
I hope it does coax you into scraping your lathe too!!!
:D
 
Thanks for reading Andre,
i wouldn't want to hand scrape a 6" bed either, but Biax Scraping is a whole lot easier.
the cross slide and compound will be time consuming but necessary for poor ol' Henrietta.
she got whooped but good, Have no fear i'll throw everything i got at her,
she deserves that much at least!
thanks for commenting.
I hope it does coax you into scraping your lathe too!!!
:D
Oh, Mike, it's too late!!! I already started scraping the compound on my Craftsman 109. Then realised the dovetails are way too small for scraping. Onto bigger and better things! :)
 
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