Change gears don’t care about diameter- they care about threads per inch and feed rates. If you only want the thread pitches listed you could use the change gear chart to determine which gears you nee

If you have it available and put a grinding wheel on it how does vertical center of grinding wheel compare against the center height See https://www.dumoretools.com/tool-post-grinders/faqs For how to

The south bend fourteen doesn’t use flat belts. It has a Reeves drive for variable speed and a main drive belt that I believe is like a timing belt on mine. Completely different beast then 9,10 or 14.

Do you have the original belts? Can you take measurements off them and look them up from there? I have a south bend fourteen though right now it’s in my son’s shop about 20 miles away. If you need mea

Your pictures are visible here. mark From: <SouthBendLathe@groups.io> on behalf of Payson <egreene104@...> Reply-To: <SouthBendLathe@groups.io> Date: Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 12:21 PM To: <Sou

I’ve had good luck with citrus strip - I’ve used that and a pressure washer to do the big parts. The big thing is get grease and oil off first then strip. Scrapper and wire brush after using citrus st

I’ve never seen it attached but based on the doc Ted references it looks like you have to drill and tap holes into bed if you wish to use it. Mark

It’s for storing the carriage stop

I had a stuck chuck once and no matter what I tried I could not get it unstuck. If memory serves me correct I made a clamp out of a block is steel and bored a hole with the mill to fit over the rear e

If you can get it a part then you could try heat straightening it. If you look on YouTube Keith Fenner does a lot of shaft straightening using that technique. Basically you place the shaft on vblocks

I’m not too worried about it now, I’ll probably just offer them up for sale for the price of approximately ½ of the cost of the two big gears ~$90. Rationale, I could separate the current two gears an

I was at Cabin Fever this past weekend and I thought I had made a major score on the front of Metric Transposing gears that I might be able to modify for my lathe – I found a 127-100 gear set that wer

The power feed control is generally changed while the machine is running. I often do a longitudinal cut to a shoulder and then switch to cross feed and face the shoulder on my final pass. The last one

I'll have to search out those videos. Not having to reverse the lathe would speed thins up a bit and prevent crashing into tailstock center. Mark

Sorry the part spinning was the combined gear blanks and arbor on the horizontal mill while cutting the gear. My earlier email was a bit confusing. I had tried to send the email earlier this week but

Yes between cuts we both kept halfnuts engaged. From my understanding there is no other way even with proper metric transposing gears. I'll look into motorcycle chain lube, thanks for the suggestion.

I was able to successfully make 2 – 34 tooth spur gears this past weekend. I tested out one of them in my lathe and cut a 1.5mm pitch metric thread without any problems using the recommended gear box

When you buy the gear set back in the day for a single tumbler gear box, it included the new banjo and a new gear cover that would fit around the gears. Someone also mentioned that they had a set of m

Single or double tumbler gearbox and what tpi is the lead screw etc.. If its double tumbler and 6 tpi there is a chance that the same gear might work but check with someone knowledgeable first. I thin

Yes the proper way of doing metric gears is to use a set of transposing gears. Occasionally they are available but generally in the $400-$600 range. There are different issues depending on whether you