This lathe looks a little beefier then the workshop model A lathe. Is it from heavy 10 and heavy 9 linage?

On Monday, January 24, 2022, 11:06:27 AM EST, Mel Gross <melgross@...> wrote: i am not the best person to ask , I am not currently very active and I forget much. But as I read the pressure angle i

Hm I don't feel particularly sharp today and have not in the past thought about why the thread dial works - But would the imperial still coordinate the position of the carriage and the lead screw in m

Thanks for the discussion of "iron bearings". Although, is have no experience with or ever seen air bearings in a way they seem in some ways an extension of the iron bearings with friction further red

Was the simple use of headstock iron by South Bend on there entry level lathes such as the workshop lathes simply a cost cutting measure. This approach has been used Goodelll Pratt and other low cost

I have a 415 (converted to an A). On this machine and many of the early ones, there is but a single pulley (i.e. one step or speed) between the motor and counter shaft so the benefit from easier shift

Thanks for the understanding of the probable motivation for the design. I have an atlas lathe (also) that has V pulleys on both ends of the motor to counter shaft connection. The large pulley was dama

The manufacture's decision to have a v belt run (on one side) on a large flat pulley is counter intuitive. Several other manufactures also used this set up. When i noticed that a new to me SB had this

Is the motor and counter shaft above the head stock the original configuration from the factory? Or perhaps, it was driven by overhead line shaft?

For a given bed length the 9a lead screw is shorter than the 9b - the gear box takes up some space. I have seen people adapt the 9a lead screw to a b set up by turning fill in shaft for the tail stock

It might be noted that the lighter south bends (work shop 9s and 10k) have the same spindle threads as the atlas lathes. Thus someone considering a swap of atlas for light south bend might want to kee

Hey I am one who forgot that there was a transition.

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Just to add a bit. The crossfeed leadscrew for the A and B lathes has a gear at the end which meshes with a gear in the apron which serves to turn the crossfeed lead screw. The C model which does not

As I recall might be a difference and some filing was required to allow the gear on the different cross feed screw to mesh with that in the apron.

I did not think SB made a 10 L gap bed lathe. But it looks a little like a piece to fill in the gap on a bed.

Are lathes like this one that are modified with huge riser blocks subject to a lot of twisting?

I have an old (now unused) Goodell Pratt lathe that holds the threaded adjustment ring in position on the spindle with a set screw that does not go all the way through the end/adjustment ring. I note

On Thursday, September 20, 2018, 11:51:29 AM EDT, Rogan Creswick <creswick@...> wrote: I've seen a few small shops go via auction, that might be an option, but I don't know that you would get a

On Monday, August 13, 2018, 9:53:09 AM EDT, kalos53@... <kalos53@...> wrote: I'm aware of only three SB1002 owners (including me). Are there others in this io Group?