Your heavy 10 out to part fine. Even the 9 inchers will part. I use 3/32" wide blades on mine rather than the more common 1/8". Works fine. John

I have a spare 13" tail stock leg, Los Angeles area available for $25, you come get. Like this in the photo, but Navy blue... John

My 9" 16 speed horizontal drive came with a very shortened leg on one side of the turnbuckle. I went ahead and mounted it so the countershaft was vertical. All works very well. Later, a friend insiste

Six years ago bought a very nice college shop, hardened bed SB 13" with tooling as described for the 10K, plus Bridgeport with brand new Kurt vice, Mitutoyo DRO, Yuasa rotary table, and lots of other

Walt's Lilly Belle is a 1.5" to the foot scale model of Central Pacific loco #173 (1/8 full size) running on 7.25" gauge track. The CP-173 was a standard gauge engine. 2.5" scale models are generally

Any of the South Bend UMD's will need a cut belt, that includes the 9 inchers...

I run my 13" South Bend, Bridgeport J Head vertical mill and Diamond B12 horizontal at home on an RPC (Rotary Phase Converter) (240 volt single phase in, 240 volt 3 phase out). At the vacation house t

Keith Rucker just did a babbitt YouTube last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxkDXg-6HJg&ab_channel=KeithRucker-VintageMachinery.org John

Allan, Greg, the OP, did say: "Can't seem to get a nice, smooth cut. Chucked up a 7-inch long, 1-1/2 inch diameter piece of steel I had laying around in an attempt to do the two-collar alignment test.

"Complete set"; are you sure you want or need 1/64", 1/32" or 3/64" collets? They're in the set. My first size either 3C or 5C is 1/16" (well, I do have a 5C 3/64" but I do not anticipate using it any

My 11th edition of Machinery's Handbook (1942) has a machine screw sizes and pitches table. My JC machine shop teacher taught us that the outside diameter of ANY numbered machine screw is the number x

Other sources for obsolete screw threads and such is Marks' Mechanical Engineers' Handbook (Lionel Marks - McGraw-Hill publisher)). My 4th Edition is dated 1941 and was my Dad's when he was working fo

Not sure how you guys working with phones do it, but from a computer you can search the files tab in the group. Looking for 'drum' as in 'drum switch', the search returns: https://groups.io/g/SouthBen

The square head screw pushes on the spring which pushes on the ball into the detent guys. The screw does not bear on the shaft...

"Before you break or strip the screw for the clutch handle it's left hand thread" Not an issue on a 9C, no clutch...

Trying to play nice. I don't want to mute the topic as there are actually discussions of 'tool grinding' in this topic. It's just that the 'I want one' and 'yes, what's your address' etc. can be done

There is a private message function gentlemen. It would be nice to eliminate all the chatter... John

Me too, here is the 9"er next to the 13"...

Glad I have the 1A/3C's for the 9' and 5C for the 13"...

The Royal nose 5C collet closer was worth the selling price. Then the threading dial. Auction closed now so someone got a deal. John