The lathe under repair has been posted about here previously. It belongs to Steve. Please include him in any responses, especially PMs, as I will just have to forward them otherwise: steve=yazlaw.com@

Greetings, I am looking for a cross slide handle for a SB9" lathe, or something very similar that would fit and work. Lathe is a 1923 era SB9 with quick change gear box, with the single lever, dog clu

Can you slice the nut part way through and drill/tap a hole to "clamp" the nut tighter? I believe some machines come with the nuts this way. Drill through with the tap drill size and then just one sid

Great. Thanks.

Thanks. That is very helpful. Not exactly the same by any means, but very helpful. Rick

Excellent. Thanks. That is what I was hoping to find. I am pleased to see the write-up on the conversion to remove the slop, using two thrust bearings. That is exactly what I was trying to do. I also

Jim, I looked, but didn't find what I was looking for. I did download the two that I found about large dials and will examine them in more detail soon. I believe I have the Army Manual already and wil

Still helping Steve Yaz with his cross slide screw repair. I have a large dial that came off a SB 9" that appears to have had thrust bearings. Is there just one set of these bearings per assembly? Ste

DROs would be nice. I have DROs on my mills, and now that I have a Monarch 10EE, it has (came to me with) Newall DROs on two axes. Very sweet. I never look at the dials for anything but the compound n

Thanks. Also, distance from rear end of screw to gear and length of gear. More drawings coming. Rick

Attached are some photos of Steve Yasgur's 9" lathe that has the broken cross slide screw. I added them to an album named: Yasgur's 9" https://groups.io/g/SouthBendLathe/album?id=95223 Front view of t

This below went to the Yahoo group, I think. At least my reply bounced for that reason. Re-posting to the"IO" group. Rick

Porting Posts from old Yahoo site. I see that Steve is now posting here. Onward. Rick Nelson Collar Today at 2:15 PM Where does your friend live? Maybe someone in that area could reach out to hin. Nel

JWE, I have to apologize for not having read the entire thread before posting my reply. I should have known, knowing you, that it had been discussed already. You description below is an excellent summ

JWE, We all know how much you've contribted in the past. It has been enormous. So, please, no disrespect, but really, I can't say that this was a very helpful contribution and it is not even responsiv

Might be obvious to most, but hasn't been mentioned yet. However you decide to mount the SB RT to the cross slide, you will need to ensure the centerline of the RT is the same as the centerline of the

This is interesting, to me at least, as the boring I've done has more often been under 1/2". I have a set of small boring bars that use variuos sizes of indexable carbide inserts (Circle brand?). Gets

I couldn't quite follow your description of the Wade 8A ways, but can share what may be a more complicated sliding way surface design. From my pre-WWII Rivett 1020. It has seven sliding ways on the ca

I've not read all the replies on this thread and so may be diving into a pit. The test bars that I have used with the SB9As that I have owned (only 2), were long bars of 1" dia. steel with short taper

Sorry, but I do not know Frank Burris. There are a lot of us involved with "fish stuff" here in Oregon, as well as most other states. You'd have to be more specific about who he works for and what he