I feel better knowing that I am not the only one that has the ability to turn mole hills into mountains. :-)

Youcan make a spacer similar to this one. It is nothing more than a piece of 2” X3/8” flat bar. Place the spacer on the spindle. Install the back plate so thatyou can do whatever work that needs to be

Thanks for the article Davis. I do find it interesting...and mind boggling. I'll have to read throught it several time to really get a grip on the topic. Up untill now my only real experiance with gea

Back on January 25, 2015 Message # 93674 Davis Johnson posted a calculator he created in Javascript. It is pretty cool.

If your half nuts lever is engaged you won't be able to use the selector lever. Likewise you won’t be able to engage the half nuts if the selector lever is engaged. I had that issue when I reassembled

David; I cobbled this together from sources available on the internet. You might find it to be beneficial. Phillip

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

I actually made one pass @ .075", but I had to cut the feed rate in half. The motor went from a happy hum to a "this is hard work" sound. I didn't get any noticable chatter, but the finish wasn't near

Thanks David. That gives me something to go on.

I am in the process of making a ball turner for my 9A. Iused my lathe to mill a ½”wide by ¾” deep slot in the top face of the blank. Todo this I mounted the blank to my QC tool holder. I used a 4 flut

A little light hearted camaraderie is a good thing.

I decided to replace the leather belt with an automotive serpentine belt. I had the broken belt in hand when I walked through the door. I quoted Mr. Murphy the length in which I measured before I left

The irony to this story is that the last name of the fellow that assisted me at the parts counter is "Murphy". At thirty something he not exactly a young man, and for that reason I avoided the "spring

Murphy’s laws always seem to come into effect at the most inopportunetimes. Then I met Murphy at the parts store. I told him what length belt Ineeded (49”), and he comes back with a belt 61” long. By

Imade a spindle thread protector the other day. It’s was a fun little projectthat has come in handy more than once since I made it.

There is some metric threading data in the techinfo folder in the files section. Could be helpful. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SOUTHBENDLATHE/files/Techinfo/Metric%20Threading/

It will work but you loose the ability to stick long work pieces through the headstock bore. At the time I wanted/needed a collet chuck I didn't have the tooling to make my own so I bought one. It fit

Same here.Now to see what I have been missing.

I gave up a long time ago. have never been able to open any of the files in the FAQ folder. I can open every other file in the files folder, but anything in the FAQ folder is a no-go. Browser doesn't

I just ordered that item off of ebay right after Christmas, andreceived my order a few days later. I haven’t used it yet. I have a fewupgrades going on. What I got looks justlike what is posted on eba