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Aluminum
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2015
- Location
- Livingston, TX
Hi everyone,
I'm starting a new South Bend renovation project. I've been looking for a small lathe for my home shop for a while and finally found a 9" wide bed that a forum member here was looking to part with. It's an older model from the mid 30's and looks like it will need at least a good cleaning to get back in top shape, but as I understand it not an excessive amount of wear or known broken bits.
Originally I was planning on just cleaning it up and running it but after seeing all the caked in gunk, grease and and rust I'm thinking I ought to go ahead and tear everything down for a more thorough cleaning and de-rusting and repaint wile I'm at it. I wouldn't mind having a nice looking machine as well as a functional one, and to be honest a clean machine will increase the WAF so that weighs in the decision a bit too.
I've got Steve Brooks' renovating guide (which the PO helpfully included) and will have to improvise or ask questions where the 9" wide bed differs from the material in the guide. For background I have no prior experience with lathes so I'm expecting a bit of a learning curve.
First things first, though, here are a few pics of the lathe in the garage for the first time.
The PO did a great job packing up the parts to safely make the trip down the coast to me.
Not sure why the two stamps on the bed.
I'm starting a new South Bend renovation project. I've been looking for a small lathe for my home shop for a while and finally found a 9" wide bed that a forum member here was looking to part with. It's an older model from the mid 30's and looks like it will need at least a good cleaning to get back in top shape, but as I understand it not an excessive amount of wear or known broken bits.
Originally I was planning on just cleaning it up and running it but after seeing all the caked in gunk, grease and and rust I'm thinking I ought to go ahead and tear everything down for a more thorough cleaning and de-rusting and repaint wile I'm at it. I wouldn't mind having a nice looking machine as well as a functional one, and to be honest a clean machine will increase the WAF so that weighs in the decision a bit too.
I've got Steve Brooks' renovating guide (which the PO helpfully included) and will have to improvise or ask questions where the 9" wide bed differs from the material in the guide. For background I have no prior experience with lathes so I'm expecting a bit of a learning curve.
First things first, though, here are a few pics of the lathe in the garage for the first time.
The PO did a great job packing up the parts to safely make the trip down the coast to me.
Not sure why the two stamps on the bed.