Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy
great machine to have i use mine all the time but mine is older then 40 years old a very old lathe i will have to hunt down a cow my leather flat belt is going south
Pat, WHEN I served my apprenticeship we had 2 south bend lathes in the shop with the leather belts. When taking to much of a cut the belt would squell and slip off the pulley.Those were the days.

I sold my Shop in 97 , I wish I had taken some of the older equipment and set up a shop in my garage,oh well hind sight.I didn't know I would be building another rod.

Brian, with that size lathe you can make a lot of nice parts.I envey you. Do you have a machinist manual?