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How about some more info. They ground the bed. Does it have hardened ways? SB had both soft and hard...
Regrinding the bed is only part of the solution. Once ground, the headstock, carriage and the tailstock have to be "raised" up to compensate for the amount ground off. Think "turcite" and other raising options. Unless you are getting it super cheap, I think that I would pass on it, simply because you don't know what all was done and if it was done properly. At the very least, remove the tailstock and look for some type of build-up material on the slip ways. If the seller will let you, also look under the headstock. If these two were brought up to the correct height, chances are that the carriage was too.
The 9" lathes didn't have a hardened ways option. I don't think that the 10k did either. Only 10L and larger.
Just looked in my 1966 South Bend catalogue. It shows both the 9" and the 10-K could be ordered with a flame hardened bed as an option.
In my 1967 catalog, it only shows the 10k as having that option (by now, all lathes 10L and above came with a hardened bed as standard). My 1963 cat does show a 9" option for it. I guess that SB changed options like the Detroit automakers.
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