Robby in Mi.
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2005
- Location
- Flint, Mi
This is my 1st post and it isn’t even for me.
A good friend of mine (Burt - who hasn’t yet moved into the computer age) recently bought, at a estate rummage sale, a Model C, 12 speed, South Bend Lathe.
After some searching on the net. I discovered that South Bend has been sold to LeBlond Ltd..
Burt has been able to order manuals from them and discovered he has a lathe built in March, 1937. He also found to his dismay, that this lathe needed a set of back gears to run properly.
He now is trying to locate the gears at a price that is something less than the price of a good used lathe. As a retired Machinist – Toolmaker, I have checked out this lightly used lathe and found it to be in surprisingly good shape. The lathe shows very few signs of use or any abuse.
If these gears can be located this would be a excellent lathe for his needs.
The gear set (As listed in the parts manual) is AS32NK1.
. . . . . The individual gears are –
PT 32 K 16 NK1 . . PT 32 K 44 NK1 . . PT 32 K 56 NK1
PT 32 K 24 NK1 . . PT 32 K 46 NK1 . . PT 32 K 60 NK1
PT 32 K 32 NK1 . . PT 32 K 48 NK1 . . PT 32 K 80 NK1
PT 32 K 36 NK1 . . PT 32 K 52 NK1
PT 32 K 40 NK1 . . PT 32 K 54 NK1
Please Post any information you can offer and I’ll pass it along to Burt. If you would like to talk with Burt, I’ll pass his phone number along, but I don’t want to put it in a Posting for all to see.
Thank You,
Roger
A good friend of mine (Burt - who hasn’t yet moved into the computer age) recently bought, at a estate rummage sale, a Model C, 12 speed, South Bend Lathe.
After some searching on the net. I discovered that South Bend has been sold to LeBlond Ltd..
Burt has been able to order manuals from them and discovered he has a lathe built in March, 1937. He also found to his dismay, that this lathe needed a set of back gears to run properly.
He now is trying to locate the gears at a price that is something less than the price of a good used lathe. As a retired Machinist – Toolmaker, I have checked out this lightly used lathe and found it to be in surprisingly good shape. The lathe shows very few signs of use or any abuse.
If these gears can be located this would be a excellent lathe for his needs.
The gear set (As listed in the parts manual) is AS32NK1.
. . . . . The individual gears are –
PT 32 K 16 NK1 . . PT 32 K 44 NK1 . . PT 32 K 56 NK1
PT 32 K 24 NK1 . . PT 32 K 46 NK1 . . PT 32 K 60 NK1
PT 32 K 32 NK1 . . PT 32 K 48 NK1 . . PT 32 K 80 NK1
PT 32 K 36 NK1 . . PT 32 K 52 NK1
PT 32 K 40 NK1 . . PT 32 K 54 NK1
Please Post any information you can offer and I’ll pass it along to Burt. If you would like to talk with Burt, I’ll pass his phone number along, but I don’t want to put it in a Posting for all to see.
Thank You,
Roger
