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| nel2lar:
I was at a junk yard. In the US that is where old cars go when the owner it tired of the car or truck. Well in the junk yard this man has a garage that is open to the weather, dust, and grim. There on his floor was sitting an old lathe. After looking at it I realized it was a South Bend. I ask the owner if it might be for sale? After I visited about 6 times, he told me what it would take to carry it home. Well, I could not wait I had to find some money, saving my pennys would not do it. I got the money up and went and picked it up. The lathe turned out to be a South Bend 10K. It had no tooling but it had a South Bend Taper Attachment that was worth more than what I paid for the lathe. I've uploaded some pic of it in the state I picked it up. Dirty filthy and nothing but the cross slide worked. The compound was so bad it took me about 30 minutes to get it off the cross slide. Then it took an hour to dissasemble it to free it up. After that I started to try to remove all the layers of gunk. After two days it look like a lathe. Now I need some advice, I never attempted anything like this and I am flying blind. And it doesn't feel good. I do not want to do something that will cost me to fix down the road. Any input would be appricated. Nel2lar |
| Brass_Machine:
Hiya nel2lar :wave: 1st, welcome to the collective :borg: I haven't done any machine restoration. Yet. We have a few people here who have though. Somebody will jump on and give some advice better than what I can. All I can say is; clean, clean and measure. I never get lucky enough to find something like that. Eric |
| Dean W:
--- Quote from: nel2lar on March 17, 2012, 09:30:37 PM --- Now I need some advice, I never attempted anything like this and I am flying blind. --- End quote --- Advice about what, Nelson? If you can be specific in your questions it will help folks give you specific answers. Someone may advise you to paint it gray, when what you want to know is where to get belts. |
| DavidBraley:
That's a wonderful looking old machine! Clean it up, oil everything and make a good solid stand or bench for it. Put it up at a height that is comfortable for you. Not much advice to give but to just start playing with it. Lots of beginner info on the web about how to use a lathe. Youtube has some videos too. Be safe, and most important, when you're leaning in to get a look at your finish, keep your mouth shut! Those hot chips are murder on the tongue.... :doh: |
| pjf134:
Since the lathe was sitting out and not used for awhile I would remove the spindle and clean everything up and add new wicks for the spindle then go from there. E-bay has books, felts and wicks in a kit for sale and would be good to have when doing a teardown. If your not getting oil to the shafts you could do some costly damage. The worst part to take apart is the gear box so be prepared for some fun doing that. Taking apart was easy, but getting it back together is another story. Look at the right side of the bed near the tailstock and you will find some numbers stamped on it with maybe some letters after the numbers like NAR10, this will tell you what you have like gear box, taper attachment ect. and any specials that came with it. The numbers date the lathe and you will need this to get the right kit. If you give me the numbers I can look up and see what year it was sold and shipped. I redid my SB9A about a year ago and I have been using it since. Before doing the spindle look in the book or ask, if done right it takes about 10 minutes to remove with out breaking anything. Paul |
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