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Much better! Congrats, now the fun begins.@Dabbler @MrWhoopee
I just picked up the South Bend. Attached some pictures below.
It came with two four jaws (bigger of the two is mounted), three jaw, steady rest, additional tooling, and the motors. It is not perfect and will start cleaning, degreasing, and rebuilding a little at a time but it works fairly well. I spent the whole night learning how to use with the change gears and oiling it.
Will be posting many questions soon on how to I should go about cleaning and restoring it.
No sense losing your head over a missed deal Jeff . Just keep your eyes out for the next deal .Looks like someone was dying for that lathe... I guess they had to wait so long.
It runs smooth. Waiting for the long weekend to start cleaning the taillstock and skirt . Any recommendations for how to degrease and clean ?looks great.
Greased lightening from Lowes works well and no stink or burn on skin.
Buy the 5 gallon unit, use full strength.
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I was reading a few older post and kerosene and mineral spirits was mentioned.Will give the Greased lighting a try first. The plan for this weekend is to get rust stains/surface rust out of the ways and begin cleaning the apron.
Thank yo everyone for the help!!
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