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Here is my 9" south bend lathe
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Adding my recently purchased 14 1/2" 1956 SB this thread. Sold my 9A but still have the 10K.
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last year acquired 9A blt 1942 around April. COmpletely tore it down and cleaned it and it's back together. Ran out of all the oils b/c I use it so much so I bought a gallon of each from ENCO. That should last a while. The lathe is the king of my small shop, my pride and joy.
Oh, I rewired everything. Also built a milling attachment for it and a traveling rest
Sorry it's not painted and looking museum quality b/c it gets used a lot and dirty. In another 10 years or so I'll probably have to tear it down again
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oh, here it is running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCZ6G96h2Ok
Oh, I rewired everything. Also built a milling attachment for it and a traveling rest
Sorry it's not painted and looking museum quality b/c it gets used a lot and dirty. In another 10 years or so I'll probably have to tear it down again
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oh, here it is running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCZ6G96h2Ok
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What a lot of beauties, makes me want to break out the amaral, anyways I lived with this one a 1942
9A with a 4 1/2 bed. I found old pic it was Ford engine blue for years since the 390 days, finally got
Dk grey which is rustoelm actually water base (I didnt know that when I bought it) come to find out
its really durable paint with a brush fast dry no brush marks gas & oil resistant. This lathe is dedicated
for threading, my other 9 change gears turning boring my GK does the heavy work. Funny its Sunday
and gave every thing a good clean down.
9A with a 4 1/2 bed. I found old pic it was Ford engine blue for years since the 390 days, finally got
Dk grey which is rustoelm actually water base (I didnt know that when I bought it) come to find out
its really durable paint with a brush fast dry no brush marks gas & oil resistant. This lathe is dedicated
for threading, my other 9 change gears turning boring my GK does the heavy work. Funny its Sunday
and gave every thing a good clean down.
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I came across this machine in St. Louis from a jack screw manufacturer at very fair price. It was advertised online. I bought it and brought it home the same day. It took a couple of months to tear down the machine and rebuild it, did not have to get into the headstock bearings, tolerance was acceptable. Had to use the lathe to make tools to re-bush the threading gearbox and cut down the cast bronze bearings from McMaster-Carr. There was a lot of polishing on this machine. The lathe had a three phase motor, therefore I purchased a TECO VFD to create the three phase power requirement. I installed a potentiometer (for variable speed control) in front of the Forward/Reverse control which I mounted on top of an add-on VFD control box on the left side of the lathe. Also included a power-on indication light. At this time I am still working on getting an Emergency Stop switch wired up. I am very pleased with the lathe's performance.
