i am probably missing something ... but could youuse 3 mt collets ?? my clausing 8520 baby mill and my sb 10k latheuses them . easier to make a new draw bar than cut colletadapters .... i

sounds like your adaptor is 3at not 3c , I have seen the adaptors on Ebay.little machine shop carries them for $60

I have some N.O.S. Send me an email Ted

Little Machine Shop item 2240 Lucas AKA Arn Jones

I recently converted my 9A to a turret lathe (bed turret, lever top slide, and lever collet closer) for a 500 part order. Finally got my 3c collets today and they almost disappeared in the spindle

Try millermachineandfabrication dot com.....Brian can probably make you one. He does excellent work. Bill

 a no. 11 jarno is very close to your needs ...jarno is 0.600 taper per ft. instead of the 0.602 of the mt3 that would beperfect . i am waiting to find a cheap used jarno myself totry ...be

Hi Dimita, The 14 is the same size as the 13. I picked one up on ebay. You have to wait for one to come up. Good luck, Charlie

I tried fitting a center into my SB 14-1/2 lathe spindle. A MT4 was way too small, wouldn't seat at all. A MT5 was way too large wouldn't even start to go in. I looked at the files section. It

I made a new one for my lathe some years ago. It isn't that tricky to make. The threads of my draw bar were shot when I bought my lathe. I used a piece of Chrome-Moly tubing. I'm not sure where I

I was just confirming for my model, since you added the "(I think)" to that comment. Confirmed, the model 34 has a 1" bore :-)

Hi Alex I just bought the same lathe and brought it home 2 weeks ago on a utility trailer. The lathe will weight approximately 1750 lbs. Unfortunately the design of the bed is a bit different then

In the files section (Again!) is the write up “How to disassemble a South Bend Lathe for moving”. It’s fairly through. Also, these lathes are VERY top heavy. Not a month passes that we do

Yes, as I mentioned, the small bore spindles, on the 10 and 13” lathes do not use the SB proprietary taper. The small bore spindles have a 1” through hole and take 11/16 collets. The 10L and

I moved a 16" using the biggest UHaul trailer. Each end of the lathe was jacked up and a homemade dolly placed underneath. The dollies were constructed from heavy duty casters from tractor supply,

I looked into this vortex cooling concept for an application on a train. The refrigeration efficiency compared with a vapour compression cycle is dreadful, so it is not a viable scheme for "base

If there's a forklift available, some 4" wide cargo straps (like used to hold heavy loads onto semi-trailers, not Home Depot ones) looped around the bed webs should handle it, or use some web straps

I have a model 34 (13") and a MT4 fits perfectly. I even measured how far back into the spindle the taper went and it matched the MT4 spec. I can do other measurements if it will help soothe your

It’s in the “Techinfo” folder Its Form SB-7324 “Tooling Dimensions” https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SOUTHBENDLATHE/files/Techinfo/ Jim B.