Ad says 15" swing, single tumbler gearbox with a camlock spindle seems odd to me...I thought camlocks were much later than anything single-tumbler.
South Bend Lathe 15" x 42" | eBay
South Bend Lathe 15" x 42" | eBay
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Model # for this South Bend?
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SLK001
Stainless
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- Feb 8, 2015
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- Coral Springs, FL USA
The whole ad is BS. It's a regular threaded spindle. It doesn't have "large dials". The bed is too early to be "flame hardened". It doesn't have an "extended range" gearbox. With an ad this deceptive, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
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JohnEvans
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Plus 100 to the above !!
I can see behind the chuck now in one of the pics, def not a camlock.
B.S. on the "cleaned and inspected" too, given the surface rust all over it.
Not ready to run away yet, surely worth nowhere near the asking but might check it out, anyway as it's not too far away.
If anyone can provide a model # I'd still like to find out specs and estimated year of mfg.
B.S. on the "cleaned and inspected" too, given the surface rust all over it.
Not ready to run away yet, surely worth nowhere near the asking but might check it out, anyway as it's not too far away.
If anyone can provide a model # I'd still like to find out specs and estimated year of mfg.
SLK001
Stainless
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- Feb 8, 2015
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- Coral Springs, FL USA
It looks like it has a "War Production" tag on the bed, so estimated year is 1942-45. AFAIK, South Bend didn't make a 15" lathe - anyway, the gearbox says it is either a 14.5 or 16". Here's a Heavy 10 in Port St. Lucie:
1 " Southbend Lathe - tools - by owner - sale
1 " Southbend Lathe - tools - by owner - sale
packardbill
Cast Iron
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Looks like a 6' bed. Model# 183C for 14.5" and 117C for 16". If it's a 14.5" it probably has a 2.250-6 tpi spindle thread, so be advised. Later 14.5's had 2.375-6 tpi spindles like the 16",a little more common. As said above, the whole ad description is B.S. Sounds like ad creator read other ads and took some "juicy" tidbits that sounded good and added them to his own ad. Price is almost 4X what that machine is worth. PB
Erich
Hot Rolled
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I concur with the its all BS assessments.
He says the face plate is 15". I trust that he could measure that accurately and has no reason to lie about that fact. That most likely makes this a 16" Lathe. The plate wouldn't fit a 14.5"
He says the face plate is 15". I trust that he could measure that accurately and has no reason to lie about that fact. That most likely makes this a 16" Lathe. The plate wouldn't fit a 14.5"
hsracer201
Hot Rolled
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He copied and pasted the description from a heavy 10 on ebay last month and edited it to say 15".
