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Offline chuck foster

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south bend mod
« on: September 30, 2009, 08:32:58 PM »
heres a mod i did to my south bend lathe.
now i did this cause my shop is very small and the flat belt drive takes up allot of room.

i will let the pictures tell the story.









i just thought i would share this mod with you guys...............i showed the wife and she just looked and said "thats nice" :doh:

chuck  :wave:
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Offline tinkerer

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 08:45:34 PM »
I am sure she is right Chuck. Now if I could just figure out what the mod is. :scratch: :lol:
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Offline John Hill

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 01:47:50 AM »
Ummm, changed horizontal belt drives to vertical?
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Offline dsquire

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 02:09:20 AM »
John

Took me a couple of minutes of looking at it before I figured the modification out. Actually it was the text that finally let the secret out. Something about taking up a lot of room? Looks like you made a right fine job of it John.

cheers  :beer:

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Offline chuck foster

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 02:22:34 PM »
i guess i should have explained what i did, i just thought everyone new how a south bend was set up  :doh:

the belt drive was set up horizontal and it stuck out behind the headstock like this



and by moving it straight over top of the headstock i was able to move the whole lathe about 6 or 8 inches closer to the wall.


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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 05:21:08 PM »
Sorry Chuck,
Didn't men to act stupid, but I kind of am when it comes to this kind of thing. :bang: I m lucky if I can figure out how my lathe is supposed to be set up. :lol:
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Offline chuck foster

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 06:15:31 PM »
on worries tinkerer...................

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Offline Bernd

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 06:22:28 PM »
Yeh, had me baffaled untill I saw the picture of how it was set up.  :bang:   :lol:

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Offline ScroungerLee

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 09:08:24 PM »
Nice job!  And timely for me too.  I was just given a South Bend and have been looking at the bench, and the wall, and the bench again, and....

Lee
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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 09:48:01 PM »
Quote from: ScroungerLee on October 01, 2009, 09:08:24 PM
Nice job!  And timely for me too.  I was just given a South Bend and have been looking at the bench, and the wall, and the bench again, and....

Lee


....now the bench will not have to be quite so deep.

Cheers :beer:

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Offline jgroom

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Re: south bend mod
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2009, 05:10:08 PM »
Nice!  :thumbup:  I just filled in the space with a couple 2x4s, but I needed somewhere to put my collet rack anyway.  :dremel:  Great little mod for the shop space challenged.

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