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Offline chipenter

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£10 Lathe
« on: May 30, 2013, 05:22:51 PM »
Bought a 9 inch South Bend S lathe for ten quid , was striped down for moving in 1978 and never put back together , its lost a few bits along the way , feet change gears and cover , cleaned off lots of dried oil today to reveal very little ware on the bed and lead screw , the worst was the tail stock front .
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2013, 05:35:54 PM »
Well worth a tenner  :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2013, 06:30:34 PM »
sounds like a good deal to me  :clap: , and looks ok condition overal too , well worth anyones £10  :)

Cheers Mick.
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2013, 03:22:34 AM »
Great catch,
Looking forward to seeing it all cleaned up n shiny.
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2013, 03:24:30 AM »
Who wouldn't want that for a tenner? Nice find!
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Offline Stilldrillin

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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2013, 03:36:01 AM »
That should fix up nicely!  :thumbup:

Well done......  :clap: :clap:

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Still drilling holes... Sometimes, in the right place!

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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2013, 09:22:42 AM »
Great score! I don't think you'll be sorry about that purchase.  :thumbup: :clap:
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2013, 03:28:43 PM »
Got it striped today there was very little paint on it and that was thin , degreased everything and removed the paint , a couple of repairs to the back gear and that's about it everything is tight ,
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2013, 06:16:59 PM »
carnt be bad will be nice once up and runing
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Offline chipenter

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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2013, 03:31:01 PM »
Well got it back together after painting with Ford light blue left over from a 105E , loads more to do yet lay shaft and motor mount is next .
« Last Edit: June 04, 2013, 01:37:25 AM by andyf »
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2013, 08:28:19 PM »
Can't really see it except in small bits because the photo is so large. Can you reduce it to a comfortable viewing size -- say 800 pixels wide?

Looks like it will be a good one!
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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2013, 01:41:40 AM »
I've shrunk it to about 25% of the original.

That's the best £10's worth I've seen in a long time! Congrats on a great find.

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I've cut the end off it twice, but it's still too short

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Re: £10 Lathe
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2013, 02:55:07 AM »
See what £10, & I assume a fair amount of elbow grease plus some left over paint can do? Knew it would look great. Yea :nrocks:
Congrats on great buy, Great clean up.
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