Old Southbend .. need help to identify?

dakota

dakota

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southbend.jpgI found an add locally where there is an old southbend for sale about an hour away from me. The owner really doesn't know much at all about the machine and couldn't find a model number or anything. He thinks the distance between centers is about 60" and he thinks the through hole is 1.25". If anyone can ID these lathe and give me a model number or any details it would be greatly appreciated. I currently have a cuesmith deluxe but would love to find a good deal on a metal lathe, but I just don't have enough info on this to see if it will help with cue making. Price is about 500, so please chime in and let me know your thoughts.

dakota
 
Interesting. Here is a site that has a lot of information on lathes :

http://www.lathes.co.uk/

I had a quick look and all of the South Bends on the site above have their handwheel on the left side of carriage apron, and the half-nut lever on the right. The photo above seems to have them reversed. Note also that South Bend was copied .... even here in little Saskatoon Canada where the John East Ironworks built "EastBends" :cool:

Dave
 
Thanks for the reply...

Dave,

I noticed that same thing, however one site that had pics of a number of southbends, did show one or two models where it looked like the hand wheels were reversed like this one.

I guess I was just really hoping that someone would recognize this model and have some info on a model number or something. I called the guy with the add and he cannot find a model number and really doesn't seem to know too much about the machine. Sounds like he has only run it a couple times....

Either way, thanks for your input, anything and everything is appreciated.

dakota

DaveK said:
Interesting. Here is a site that has a lot of information on lathes :

http://www.lathes.co.uk/

I had a quick look and all of the South Bends on the site above have their handwheel on the left side of carriage apron, and the half-nut lever on the right. The photo above seems to have them reversed. Note also that South Bend was copied .... even here in little Saskatoon Canada where the John East Ironworks built "EastBends" :cool:

Dave
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I'd pass.

Looks like old, belt change for spindle speed, lathe. Hasn't been used in forever. Probably will need bearings. Larger footprint than you need. Spindle bore too small IMO. ect...ect.

Craigslist typically has 13x40's and other lathes in better condition that would suit you better.

You just need to be patient, especially if you want to build cues.

The wheel being on the right indicates it is a gap bed.
 
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Thanks to all...

Thanks for the advice and the responses. I think I'm going to hold off for something that is a little closer to 36-40" and something with larger through hole capacity. It is tempting due to the fact that it is 500, but by the time I buy some tooling and get it to do the things I want, it won't be a cheap purchase.

Thanks again,

dakota
 
dakota said:
Thanks for the advice and the responses. I think I'm going to hold off for something that is a little closer to 36-40" and something with larger through hole capacity. It is tempting due to the fact that it is 500, but by the time I buy some tooling and get it to do the things I want, it won't be a cheap purchase.

Thanks again,

dakota
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I have a lathe almost identical to that one and it works great for what I have it set up for which is turning butts between centers. For a first lathe or a general lathe that lathe would not suffice.

Dick
 
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