Hope you find it soonest--have you tried using a magnet in botton of the gear box? Better that than crunched in the gears once you try to start it up. Nelson

Why not take your motor to a local electric motor repair shop and ask them for the correct key? They should have them by the batch for el-cheapo prices. Nelson Wood

Remember that you can chip out all of the old babbitt metal from the bearing housing and melt that into your pot so the amount of new babbit metal you will need to replace is that which has been lost.

Connecticutt. Nelson W,

If any are left, I would appreciate you sending one to me. Regards, Nelson Wood 586 PeacePipe Land Hedgesville, WV 25427 703-343-0498 Cell

Me three as well. Nelson

Chips, Ummm. Might take it to an electric motor shop for repairs. Good luck. Nelson

Chips, Ummmm, I think I would take it to a motor rebuild shop for repairs. Good Luck!

I may have something you might be able to use. Mine is a South Bend rotary switch with an arrowhead handle rather than lever type. Internals are the same--forward stop reverse. Other than that it is a

Seems to me that someone on this list posted dimensions of subject bearing noted above but I deleted it without thinking. It was attached to an email message about 2 weeks ago??? Can anyone help? Than

Phil and Son, Great pctures and testimony about your father/son cooperation. Sounds like you have him on the right track for future success, regardless of his career path--he will probably remember th

Yes, thank you! Nelson

She is a he. Lives in NJ. I had a run in with him about 10 years ago over purchase I made on Ebay. Same result. Never again. Nelson Wood

Ed, Good luck with passing the kidney stones. Been there: done that. Not fun. Nelson Wood

North Africa is/was sandy, hot and low humidity--kinda looks like this pic! I don't recognize the "Jeep" but hula have been some kind of British look-a-like! Nelson W.

Sir, do you have a lathe level for sale? Have one but can't find it in my shop. Thanks Nelson

John, That said, I don't think that the time to change the belt from pulley to pulley is long enough to bother about. After all, most speeds are used to start and end a single cut so that in only one

Paul, Good point! Nelson

What are we talking about??? I have a mythical V belt model A SB lathe. It takes 2 secs to move the vee-belt over the large end of the spindle drive pulley. I can change speed many many times by movin

I have a v-belt driven model A which is shown on the SB origin card. Can't find out anything about it. Can anyone provide reference on why built, who sold to and related? Thanks, Dows not show up in U