Any Ideas About This Lathe?

Ya did good. That lathe looks like it's in pretty good shape, as far as I can see.

I've had Atlas lathes and they were not bad. But I prefer the my South Bend 9C and 9A.

Grizzly sells chuck keys for a reasonable price.

Now that you have an SB 9A you can probably make the parts that you need for your draw bar.

Seriously, you seem to have gotten a good deal.

PS If you want to give yourself a cheap thrill, use a little Brasso on that plate. I'll bet that if you do, you'll look at it and think "Nice...".
 
Congratulations! I think you got a great machine there and for a really great price.

Thanks for all the pictures.
I will try to find the original catalog for that lathe.

With the string wrapped around that centre it looks like someone was using it as a plumb-bob!
Neat idea for using one tool in a totally different way.

-brino
 
I got the lathe into a position in my workshop where I can begin playing, I mean working, on it. Took a lot of pictures. All he travels were quite stiff. I don't think it has been lubed in a while. So I put a little Husqvarna bar oil, it's all I have right now, on the ways and crosslide and compound. that really helped. the ways looked real good except this small area right where you would expect it.

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You can see the little ridge at the top of the way. It's about 8 inches long. I really think the gibs are adjusted too tight. But then again, I'm a rookie so I'm really not sure.

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Wouldn't you know it, I run the danged thing for 5 minutes and it purrs like a kitten. Try to drill one 1/8 inch hole and the belt jumps off and breaks. In all honesty, the clips looked like they were put in badly to begin with.

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Now I need to know how to replace this belt with a serpentine belt. I have replace thousands of conveyor belts as a maintenance tech for a major warehouse for the last 25 years, but don't have the splicer and clips available.
Time for a search.
 
You can just stitch it together with kevlar thread/string, or do what I did and I just used steel twisted multi strand picture hanging wire. I drilled the holes, tinned the end of the wire to help get it through the holes, and then soldered the tag ends together, it works great!

The wire purchased from the big box store
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Tinned the wire end with solder to keep the strands together as I pushed it through the holes.
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Notice that I stayed in from the end for strength to prevent it from tearing out. And that the wire sits in the grooves, runs silent that way.
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A bead of solder keeps it all together.
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Hi Jack,

I was able to find that catalog number in the 1952 Southbend General Line Catalog.
Note that does NOT give a definitive year of manufacture, as they may have sold it for a number of years.

The only problem is that I cannot currently upload pdf files......but I have contacted one of the moderators to have a look.
Stay tuned.....

-brino
 
I am slowly cleaning up the lathe and sorting through the few items that were included with it. My research into the lathe indicated that the spindle and the tailstock had MT2 bores. That really doesn't seem to be the case. I hve two different sized dead centers that work in each.

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The larger one fits the spindle exactly. The other is a standaed MT2 and fits the tailstock. Are they the same thing?
 
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