Thank you….I am from Chicago so it is a little far…..a few weeks ago my daughter just had her grad ceremony from Smith college….that could of worked out…

Well best of luck yo . I worry about my batteries in a fire also . Hopefully I won't ever have to experience that , though we had 3 cars fully packed for a month or so last year due to

Thanks. “ animal” My “Grey Ghost” will come to my new shop and. I will give it a “Shot. I started with a really superb Bed. Refurbished over 8 years to fine working. Condition. As

I was having a problem with that, too, but I think he missed the photo of the MT3 taper in the spindle adapter. Just sent the link to him a moment ago. We're using text & photos that have no way of

Beautiful lathe. I wish I were closer (Utah). $1000 is too little, I think. Someone is going to be delighted! From: Ron Pare Sent: June 5, 2022 08:35 To: SouthBendLathe@groups.io Subject:

Then you must have missed the last photo I posted, which had the MT3 taper in the the factory spindle

Here you go.

Pictures? Get Outlook for Android From: SouthBendLathe@groups.io <SouthBendLathe@groups.io> on behalf of Ron Pare <rppare@...> Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2022 10:35:11 AM To: SouthBendLathe@groups.io

9 inch South Bend lathe for sale, set up on original “work bench”, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, several face plates, tool posts, and a fair amount of tooling, 120/240 single phase, good condition, 9x36”

My guess is they tried to get a standard center to stick out the optimal distance to use a face plate and dog? On

Now I need to go double check - I think on the 9As they left off some of the large end as well, which is why a standard mt3 center sticks out so far. Probably to keep from needing a larger

If they had used the smaller end it would have restricted the size of the spindle through hole. On 6/5/22 09:57, rlm_mcv via groups.io wrote:

The spindle sleeve is shorter than the full Morse Taper. South Bend used the larger end for gripping power and that is what I suggested a person should do when recreating one.

I'm really not getting this argument. Shouldn't it fit both ends and everywhere in between and a little beyond is ok? And how could anything other than putting it in small end first

Eddie has a many good points. For myself, before I did anything, I would talk ed the insurance company. Unless it was used for business, homeowners’ insurance will cover it. They may cover a new

But none of your pieces in the picture was the shorter South Bend factory adapter that was the subject of this posting.

That's funny. I get the impression you missed the point of why you would. I will point out one more time that the adapter and centers I photographed are all FACTORY products. The small end is also the

Sorry but you have missed the reasons why normally one would not make the adapter sleeve fit the small end of a Morse Taper as you previously suggested. I am not interested in going out on a new

And sometimes you need more bearing area to hold your piece between centers to work it. Larger center with a deeper center hole from a larger center drill will give you that. If you need the smaller

Hi There,