To all, I meant to include “Houdini’s” advice in my suggestion below. Main thing: don’t use the headstock gears as a “lock” of the spindle, and rocking or repeated leverage, rather than shock will usu

Bill, and all, Bill’s advice has worked for me on the two or three occasions where I encountered a “chuck problem.” This includes my antique 14” 1912 Whitcome-Blaisdell lathe with a Horton 3-jaw chuck

George, and all, I think a “Market place” would be useful and helpful to both buyers and sellers. What would be very valuable is a section revealing what “it” sold for. Not only would this feature kee

To all: In WW II a lucky Russian engineer got stationed in the Ames Lathe factory in Waltham, Mass. to observe lathes being made to ship to Russia on lend-lease. As he watched a scraper fit a tailstoc

To all: I may be walking into it here, but I have to ask: If a vertical miller is available, couldn’t the hand wheel shaft be loosely fitted into a vise with a vee block, a drill suitable to the shaft

To all: John Gallo is sooo! right. The shop I began 75 years ago is still in my possession, but I can now just barely walk out there. I still visit “my empire” almost daily, since it is in a building

7/27/18 To all: My thanks to all who replied to my initial inquiry. All replies were helpful, and told me things I wouldn’t have though of myself. The consensus was to loosen the cap screws, and I did

7/24/18 Hello, I am about to remove the spindle from my 1954 Model A 9” lathe, which I bought new in 1954. It has been the workhorse of my shop for over sixty years, and is still nearly like new. Exce

To all: A few days ago I again tried to sign into my Yahoo account so I could enlarge a picture. Predictably, it was futile. I got a special message saying, “Someone has tried to sign into your accoun

2/9/18 To all, The “missing” holes in the piece in question would have been drilled, and were not part of the casting. It looks like that piece slipped by the inspection department. Jcl

12/14/17 DJ Delorie, Have you tried to contact the manufacturer of the printer? This might be an available replacement part. Further, if you can identify the printer make and model, and if this is a v

9/24/17 To all, I have eight or ten similar collets to those in “Silverrs” photo. Mine came from the E. Howard Clock factory, in Waltham, MA at that time. When I worked there in the early fifties they

5/29/17 To all, For those who like trivia: invention did not stop with the O’Brien Brothers, inventors and founders of the South Bend lathe company. Their daughter/niece was an inventor as well. Mario

5/27/17 Lance, Very nice planning, and a very easy-to-follow presentation. Thanks for sharing. John Losch

On Sep 19, 2016, at 9:38 PM, Lance Eggleston gbof@... [SOUTHBENDLATHE] <SOUTHBENDLATHE@...> wrote: Welcome.. 822+ people, wind surfing and a beer hall. What did I miss in Klitmoell

7/13/16 to all: We seem to be working with different definitions for the same things. I will tell you the definitions I learned in the seventy years I have been in the clock and watch trades. Step chu

7/1/16 To all, For one lathe, I would recommend replacing the motor, and selling the 3 Phase to someone who can use it. I too run an M-Head Bridgeport on a capacitor, or static phaser which I bought s

Myles wrote: I agree. I'm finding there are a lot of amateurs out there making great videos that are well worth the watch. I'm disappointed in Keith, abom and others who now want to make a profit on t

4/27/16 To all, Some of these threads run together and become hard to sort. From what I can disassemble, jfriend314@... has listed three SB lathes he has. (See somewhere slightly below this mess