Video of South Bend lathe operation.

[Newton]

These may be known for some of you, but I thought these would be interesting
for many of us. Fun to se these old films, the operations has not changed but
I guess the cloths has changed

Enjoy

http://www.wswells.com/video/

Kent

 

[ELBeau]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Newton]

My pleasure.

It's really nice to see these guys working. They took pride in their work and the machines was advanced with buttons and levers all over.
And how about those tool posts

I liked the part which showed the old school way of making tools for the lathe.

K