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The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: chipenter on May 30, 2013, 05:22:51 PM

Title: £10 Lathe
Post by: chipenter 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 .

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: doubleboost on May 30, 2013, 05:35:54 PM

Well worth a tenner  :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
John

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: micktoon 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.

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: SwarfnStuff on May 31, 2013, 03:22:34 AM

Great catch,
Looking forward to seeing it all cleaned up n shiny.

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: Pete. on May 31, 2013, 03:24:30 AM

Who wouldn't want that for a tenner? Nice find!

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: Stilldrillin on May 31, 2013, 03:36:01 AM

That should fix up nicely!  :thumbup:

Well done......  :clap: :clap:

David D

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: vtsteam on May 31, 2013, 09:22:42 AM

Great score! I don't think you'll be sorry about that purchase.  :thumbup: :clap:

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: chipenter 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 ,

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: krv3000 on May 31, 2013, 06:16:59 PM

carnt be bad will be nice once up and runing

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: chipenter 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 .

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: vtsteam 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!

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: andyf 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.

Andy

Title: Re: £10 Lathe
Post by: SwarfnStuff 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.
John B