south bend 10 need help

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bridgeport13b

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• Sep 20, 2017

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Hi I am looking at a south bend lathe that is pretty ruff but does come with a ton of tooling and attachments that are not shown. the owner wants 500 for it and said it was a running machine until he took the base off of lathe and stored it away. Machine was his grandfathers and he said the rust is mostly surface rust and that the machine is really dirty.

 

hsracer201

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I'd break my arm reaching for my wallet so fast...

What do you need help with? There were no questions in your post.

 

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steve-l

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Buy it for parts, if nothing else. The price is right.

 

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bridgeport13b

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I want to know if it's a good buy and does this machine have the bigger spindle bore?

 

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iwananew10K

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1- yes, good buy for your area.

2-who cares what the bore is?? Even if it is the small bore 10" you are only a cheap and easy spindle swap away to make it a large bore machine.

Buy it.

 

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mTeryk

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bridgeport13b said:

Hi I am looking at a south bend lathe that is pretty ruff but does come with a ton of tooling and attachments that are not shown. the owner wants 500 for it and said it was a running machine until he took the base off of lathe and stored it away. Machine was his grandfathers and he said the rust is mostly surface rust and that the machine is really dirty.View attachment 208362View attachment 208363View attachment 208364View attachment 208365View attachment 208366

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And only driven once a week to church on Sundays. .....

It's a project. Whether you buy it for parts or to rebuild. Are you interested in buying a project or are you interested in buying a usable machine tool, which it is not.

A "running lathe" means the motor works and the spindle spins (probably.... at some point). Everything else is to be determined.

 

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johnoder

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Page 22 and 13

http://www.wswells.com/data/catalog/100B/cat_100B.pdf

 

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bridgeport13b

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I don't expect a running machine, I was looking for a machine that I can fully restore. I just wanted to make sure that it was worth the price

 

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bridgeport13b

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johnoder said:

Page 22 and 13


http://www.wswells.com/data/catalog/100B/cat_100B.pdf

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Appreciate the help, btw Someone said on this forum that you can check if it is a big spindle unit by having a different half but lever. Is this true?

 

johnoder

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If the big hole is important, take something 1 5/16" OD (socket?) with you and see if it EASILY fits in back end of spindle before you commit

It will either fit with 1/16 slop or won't go at all in the 1" small bore version (which took collets to 11/16)

 

hsracer201

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bridgeport13b said:

Appreciate the help, btw Someone said on this forum that you can check if it is a big spindle unit by having a different half but lever. Is this true?

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Not that I know of, but you can easily tell a 10K from a 10L/R by the half nut lever.

 

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bridgeport13b

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Machine is definetly a 10r has a 7in wide bed with the small spindle inner diameter.

 

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bridgeport13b

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Here are a few more pics as well as a few lightened up.

 

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bridgeport13b

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One more pic I forgot about

 

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Erich

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As said above, this is the small spindle version of a Heavy 10. It will NOT fit 5c collets
Replacing the spindle is all it takes to have a large spindle version.

All assembled, derusted and in operating condition its a 2k machine all day every day. This condition is NOT perfectly painted polished with all wear issues addressed.

 

johnoder

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Yep - 199ZN is on page 23

bridgeport13b said:

Here are a few more pics as well as a few lightened up.




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bridgeport13b

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Erich said:

As said above, this is the small spindle version of a Heavy 10. It will NOT fit 5c collets
Replacing the spindle is all it takes to have a large spindle version.

All assembled, derusted and in operating condition its a 2k machine all day every day. This condition is NOT perfectly painted polished with all wear issues addressed.

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I ended up buying it, the bed ways are by far the cleanest ways I have ever seen, after rubbing a maroon scuff pad on ways they cleaned up immediately and literally have zero wear as in no ridge or any signs of dropped tool marks or any thing. Came with a ton of tooling and a dumore tool post grinder