Charley Davidson
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2011
- Location
- Murfreesboro, Tn.
Made chips with my freshly refurbed South Bend lathe today (on my birthday) Everything went well, need some tweaking but overall I'm very happy with it's performance. The 2.5" x 3' solid round bar was no problem for this machine, it took a .043 doc like a champ (.086 off dia.) was very straight with no taper at about 5 inches then I got some taper but that may have been some movement in the cross feed. Don't see any type of lock for the cross feed. Cot was pretty smooth for just grabbing a hss cutter out of the box and not touching it up at all. This thing has a great range of speed but I do not think I can reverse the lead screw. Overall I like it and think I will find a spot for it in my shop as a keeper. I'll put it up for sale at $1,500.00 so I'm sure I'll be keeping it.