Thread: GIANT South Bend lathe

I hope to make it out your way one of these days Ronnie. Maybe next year. Good luck with the move.

Originally Posted by Wyoming

I hope to make it out your way one of these days Ronnie. Maybe next year. Good luck with the move.

Roy It would be great to see you buddy. The door is alway's open.

Thanks

Ronnie

Hi ronnie! Glad to hear of your conquest. Looks like I will be there to pick up my 10L when you pick-up yours. I would be glad to help look through the junk in the building for any tooling for your machine. I will bring a flashlight and an ar-15! I want to be in line for a beer or whatever when that monster is safely in your shop. regards- new2a4

Originally Posted by new2a4

Hi ronnie! Glad to hear of your conquest. Looks like I will be there to pick up my 10L when you pick-up yours. I would be glad to help look through the junk in the building for any tooling for your machine. I will bring a flashlight and an ar-15! I want to be in line for a beer or whatever when that monster is safely in your shop. regards- new2a4

Well Tommorow is the big move for my 24" swing south bend and Rons 10L. I am sure we will both sleep good tommorow night. Ron you mentioned you were going to bring a flashlight and an AR-15 and I will bring a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and some glasses. I will add pictures of the event as soon as I can. Look forward to meeting you Ron. See you in the morning

Ronnie

Good luck to the two Ron's--nice saves!

Tom B.

Originally Posted by Riderusty

Good luck to the two Ron's--nice saves!

Tom B.

Hello Tom Thanks for the support. Today was a very successful day for both Ron and myself. Ron picked up his very nice heavy 10L with a nice bunch of tooling and I became the proud owner of one heavy massive South Bend 24" swing with 14' bed. With the help of a great friend and his John Deer 410G the lathe was easily extracted from the interior of the building to the outside by simply sliding it along the concrete floor. Once outside I used 2 10,000 pound slings,found the balance point and away she went right on my 10,000 pound utility trailor. The lathe came with a taper attachment,milling attachment,2 four jaw chucks,1 3 jaw chuck,22" diameter face plate,follow rest,rocker tool post,some centers,micrometer carriage stop,thread dial,tail stock wrench and some assorted milling arbors. The bed clamp for the taper attachment is missing as well as the steady rest but all in all it came with a good bunch of tooling and I am happy. Here are some pictures of the day:

More pictures:

And more pictures:

And some more: I would like to thank Ron Deaks for putting me in touch with this lathe and I am looking forward to your friendship. I will keep in touch. Also I would like to thank John Oder for sending me some original documentation and specs for this lathe. It is very appreciated. I will update the thread at a later date once the lathe is in its resting place and all cleaned up.

Ronnie

thank you for saving that lathe.It looks like a good thing when you have to move stuff to store more stuff

Thanks Ronnie & Ron,

Good Move and Great save. I've been waiting like many others to see pictures of the "Big Move" since this thread was started. Thanks for sharing. I was surprised to see the backhoe was able to lift that massive lathe. Was it at the limit for the backhoe? Anyway, always glad to see when a plan is completed successfully and one like this with no injury or damage! Thanks again for sharing and good luck.

danny

Originally Posted by firstcut

thank you for saving that lathe.It looks like a good thing when you have to move stuff to store more stuff

Glad to save it. The scary thing is that I have a second floor on my shop with nothing up there other than dead flies on the floor. Maybe I could cut some barn doors in and load more machines up there?


Thanks Danny That backhoe has balls like mighty joe young. It moved it with the engine a fraction above idle with ease. I will say that the straps were like banjo strings

Ronnie

Check out in the pics,
Look at how narrow that thing is. looks like it could tip over real easy. so narrow, and so tall.

Originally Posted by moonlight machine

Check out in the pics,
Look at how narrow that thing is. looks like it could tip over real easy. so narrow, and so tall.

Hey Guy Believe it or not it was very stable because of the weight and low center of gravity on the bed with short pedistals. With the slings choked dead center of the bed it came straight up. Being the mental midget that I am I still held onto the counter shaft assembly with both arms like I was really gonna hold it if it were to tip

Ronnie

"The scary thing is that I have a second floor on my shop with nothing up there other than dead flies on the floor. "

Buy the whole series of books called "Echoes of the Oil Country" from Lindsay Publications. In one volume, the author talks about framing out an opening in a second floor and hoisting the machines up internally, using the rafters to support the tackle. Yep, you'll have that second floor stuffed in no time!

JRR

Ronnie,
Give the old gal a good Lysol douche before you get up close and personal with it.

Ronnie,

Those are some great shots. That's an interesting group of buildings--was it a private facility or hospital at one time? Also, that overhead drive is massive. I have a Cullman on one if my mills that also uses the original countershaft cone rather than a gear box such as Drive-All--do you know what make that unit is? I know Cullmans came in many sizes but that one looks different.

Good luck with it! Keep us posted.

Tom B.

Originally Posted by SouthBendModel34

"The scary thing is that I have a second floor on my shop with nothing up there other than dead flies on the floor. "

Buy the whole series of books called "Echoes of the Oil Country" from Lindsay Publications. In one volume, the author talks about framing out an opening in a second floor and hoisting the machines up internally, using the rafters to support the tackle. Yep, you'll have that second floor stuffed in no time!

JRR

JRR I will pass on the books because that just might throw my wife over the edge if I start loading the second floor with more machines. She mentioned a few years ago about making a big playroom up there but she never said for the kids or myself. I might be able to pull that one off



Roy Will do. I want to pull the covers off and inspect the gear trane and once I lube a few things up I am going to put power to it. If you see your lights dim you will know its only me


Tom I believe the drive assembly was made by south bend and it is massive for sure. Everything about this lathe is stout and very well made. If I decide to restore this one I will have my hands full because some of the castings are very heavy and would have to be removed with slings and a hoist which I have so that helps. I laid in bed last night thinking of how sweet this machine would look all painted up and the hand wheels polished and oh I am diseased aint I?

Ronnie

If nobody has noticed...I'm a "photo back ground" observer.

Tell us about the pedestal grinder and the drill press in photo 4

Originally Posted by penelopepitstop

JRR I will pass on the books because that just might throw my wife over the edge if I start loading the second floor with more machines. She mentioned a few years ago about making a big playroom up there but she never said for the kids or myself. I might be able to pull that one off
Ronnie

Ronnie,
Build the second floor for yourself. I don't know of a wife made that wouldn't be happy to have you out of 'her' territory with your chips and clutter. As word to the wise, don't go putting a big budget flat screen mega TV, fully stocked bar or other big ticket items up there or you'll get evicted by the landlord/boss/SWMBO. If it matters, Killer was the one that told me I would be an idiot if I didn't build my retirement shop early...that was 12 yrs ago and I still have another four yrs on the RR.