Thread: No holiday down south, but a new lathe!!!

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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?

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

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?

yep if i try more of any thing over .100 in steel it will at times squell but alum or iron i can go hog wild it is a 14 by 48 ? or so it is a carroll jamieson cone head about 1920 ? but works geat the other one i had was a hendey with a shifter over head gear box but sold that one. i like the old flat belt stuff i have a very old big band saw that has 36 wheels on it a babbitt bearings machine i think they used it to cut the wood for the mayflower but i use it for steel now

Brian

I know you said you have some manuals, but here is a link to an Army machine shop manual in PDF format.

http://www.metalworking.com/tutorial...524-index.html

Hope it helps.

Mike

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

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?

Don---I have a "Machinery's Handbook 23rd Edition." and I bought a couple of books on "speeds and feeds". I used a lathe for 6 months during my apprenticeship 40 years ago, and surprisingly enough, I remember most of what I learned then. I also remember REALLY WELL the sound that the compound rest makes when it encounters a spinning chuck---