Thanks! The paint code is Sherwin Williams and details can be found (on page 4 of the build diary) - the link is found in the description of the video.
Excellent! Outstanding! Great Job. I have a SB9 Model A from 1937 an restored it to, I know how much work you invested here. A great machine and a peace of history. Thanks for documenting your work in this video!
I'm heading out this morning to pick up a 1941 version 9A in similar condition. Your video is a true inspiration. Revealing the beauty, history and talent under those layers pays the utmost respect and resurrection to those that built the modern world we live in today. You've set the bar pretty high. I'll try my best. Much thanks.
Great job! I wonder what the run out is 1' from the chuck? What software did you use for the wonderful slide presentation?Thanks for sharing and keep up the fine work.
Sorry for the loss of music. It returns around the 18-minute mark. The stupid copyright block. Other people use published music, I just don't get it...
Hey, basementshopguy ! Yhe little Southbend 9" Lathe, that's a Sweet Job ! you did on the restoration of thr lathe. Wow ! Love the new Speed & feed charts you replaced ! I'm starting a Clausing 1964 restoration, can you or someone else PLEASE give me a lead on where to get those beautiful speed & feed replacement charts ! Those really made the project POP ! Thanks, Mark Ohio
Hi, I can't get enough of watching the South Bend 9 A lathe video. Congratulations What is the color formula for me to restore my model A here in Brazil. thanks!
Wow what a sad thing to do to a lovely vintage lathe. Some people have no idea. but you done a great job restoring her. She looks gorgeous. Fantastic job. Hope she gives you yrs of service. I'm in the process of restoring a 1939 Colchester master 6inch. Only downside is the rpm
I restored a 1959 Streamline Travel Trailer...it took 5 years. I can only imagine all the hours, research and elbow grease to finish this master job. I bet it's hard to cut your first chip !!!! Have you used it yet...? I'm sure I speak from the rest of us ...glad you are as talented as you are.
SB 9 was my 1st lathe. I bought a model C and have been converting it to an A, but I can't find what gears to use to make the gearbox ratio correct for the thread pitches. Was hoping to see the tooth counts on yours, but I might as well ask if you can tell me...great video. I had to clean and paint mine too, but now it looks and works like new!
omg what a beauty! Well done!!!! I too have a 1955 9" model A I'm just now checking into what its going to take to restore it. I'd like to know more like paint type, rust remover etc etc. I'll follow the link you provided in the description. Awesome job!
I have a Hurcus 9" AR lathe, (its a renamed SouthBend lathe) built in South Australia so identical to yours but with bearings in the head stock. this was quite mesmerizing to watch. top job old son, well done.
Very nice resto, these machine built America and deserve to have a resto like this. Unfortunately it takes so much work to do a resto as nice you did on this machine... I bet the new owner is proud to have that machine, I would be !!
Absolutely gorgeous. I recently purchased a 1943 9A with the War Department tag still on it. Your video will be my inspiration to give the old girl a new lease on life.
I have a war vet 9A too from 1942. It needs restoration, but I keep using it for 'just one more project'. I do need to do it right and pass my beauty on to the next generation in good repair.
Hi mate. What a wonderful machine. I hope you shot the guy that owned the machine before you. That person should be disallowed from ever owning a machine again..... I also liked the music that accompanied the reportage. I think it is from a Jewish ghetto survivor. Kind regards, Marcel.
Incredible job. Your cleaning buffing and polishing make all the difference - have you made videos on your technique? What do you do about dings gouges and scratches? Thanks again great to watch.
All the paint codes are found in the link (see description) to the build thread. Tons of info on the entire project. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Awesome!!! I just sold my South Bend 13" (but kept the taper attachment) to get a 16" with riser blocks. Currently tearing it down also. I thought the taper would be compatible with the 16 but, it's not. Either way good luck on the new restore. It's definitely not an easy task, a lot of elbow grease is involved.
Hey Mr. Basement Shop Guy and all. I love your videos. They remind me of not just the machinery but a time in this country when everything seemed pure and straight forward. When people were proud of their country, and there was something to be proud of.
Absolutely gorgeous. I just picked up a model B benchtop lathe. Same condition (without the paint job) as yours. I'm now convinced that I will be taking mine apart to do the same. Great Job!!
It turned out gorgeous. I wish you did a video series showing how, particularly how you get the steel so clean and bright, and how you did the gear chart and various tags.
WOW!!!! Brad you have done a superb job!!! Detail is amazing. I have been trying to find a decent Heavy 10 or 13 with no luck. Seeing this video makes me want one more.
Thank you sir .This is most excellent. Great music,great pics. When I restore my 9a I hope it looks this good. Love the green in gray idea for the color.
PART 1 "Aside from learning the theory and practice, there is a third factor necessary to becoming a master in any art-the mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern; there must be nothing else in the world more important than the art. This holds true for music, for medicine, for carpentry, (machining)-and for love. And, maybe, here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures:
What a great job! I was wonderful to see a classic machine come back to life and look like it did the day it rolled out the door in South Bend! Thank you for sharing!
Hello. I hope you can help me. I have a SB 9" model A. But i don't have the " Inverted lathe glass". Do you know the sizes of all this parts?, sorry but I can't find this information. Thank you Greetings
Olá, boa noite! preciso de informações em relação a tinta usada, a fórmula para montar a cor desse torno e qual é o produto para tirar a ferrugem das peças? Existe um kit para a montagem das engrenagens? Qual feltro usar nos dosadores de óleo? obrigado!
Hello goodnight! Should the products be assembled against these products and the formula made to assemble these products? How did you treat the rust? Is there any kit to live like? The South Bend lathe was very beautiful. Congratulations I have one of the same model.
@@BasementShopGuy Hello goodnight! Should the products be assembled against these products and the formula made to assemble these products? How did you treat the rust? Is there any kit to live like? The South Bend lathe was very beautiful. Congratulations I have one of the same model.
I personally would had left it as it was if it was in good mechanical condition; I would had had the ways reground and gone through the gearboxes, and that's about it.
Well, that's a matter of personal taste. To me, that lathe looked horrific with the metallic blue/gray paint. And one of the aspects to my hobby is restoring to (as close to) factory as possible. As for the ways, look at them in the final pictures - they're pristine with nearly all the scraping in tact. Thanks for watching.
Stunning job. Clearly you are a top notch craftsman with a bit of artiste thrown in. 9 years ago you mentioned it's gone. Was that in regard to this machine or do you still use it?
Beautiful restoration. It almost seems a shame to actually use it to cut metal after all this work. (But I don't really mean that - a lathe is born to cut metal and denying it would be the real shame.) I've had two SB9s: an early '40s with a brass plate asserting that it was subject to the War Materiels Board, and another plate assigning it to the Auburn Clutch Co. It was in very bad shape. The saddle had worn down so far that the ways had cut into the mounting holes for the oil wiper covers. The ways were visibly "sway-backed". Still, it gave me usable service until my father passed, and I inherited the second SB9 in my life. My father got it new in the mid-60s, and it has had only light use in the intervening 50 years. To be sure, my father used it mostly as a wood turning lathe for the last ten years he had it, so it was fairly packed with oily sawdust. The paint is still factory fresh for the most part, with very few dings. Some of the bright metal is now lightly "browned", but there is no pitting anywhere. I'm about to convert it to 1 hp 3-phase with a programmable VFD to get braking and reversing on the fly (without spinning the chuck off). I have a question about the serpentine belt. Doesn't that require a complete disassembly of the headstock and the jackshaft when it needs replacement? I've always used leather with skived/glued joints. (I can't stand the "slap" that a Clipper joint makes twice on every revolution.) I've just subscribed to your channel, so don't be surprised to find comments popping up on your older videos (like this one). They generally aren't meant to be critical, but just musing on how I might have approached some particular problem, and thinking "out loud" about it. I am prone to stopping videos and commenting while an idea is fresh, only to discover that my question is covered later in the video. I've begun posting a few videos of my own so, if you feel inclined, take a look. The best so far is the start of a series on replacing the CRT display in an older Anilam Crusader M (on a SuperMax mill) with a modern LCD display.
Peter W. Meek Pete - thanks for those nice words, I sure do appreciate that. You're lucky to have one of those War Babies. Mine was a 46, so from that "era" but not from the war. My Heavy-10 was a 42, so right smack in the middle. My goal is get another 9 - but only if it's a war baby. You're gonna need to pull that spindle and counter-drive . Greg Haligan has a nice video on this: ua-cam.com/video/U1agcVkQ63U/v-deo.html But it's really easy - provided there's not a lot of rust and all the parts cooperate nicely. - Good luck!
What a great project! Thanks for sharing this, I very much enjoyed watching your well made slideshow, the pace was perfect, and the music elegantly set the mood. You can see the love of fine detail in your work. Thank you for making this. Best regards SSG Frank Novak
sgttacklebury This one was my personal favorite Frank. Just something about how she came out, the time period, etc.. Thanks so much for watching and commenting ;)
I am a gun guy(instructor) and shooter for more than 47 years, and as such I have a love of machined complex metal shapes carefully crafted to do a useful purpose. There is a real art to these machines, people who made them put in more than function. Please keep doing what you do, someday I might try this myself. Best regards, and Merry Christmas. F.Novak
I would have taken advantage of the space underneath the stand with a full cabinet rather than a single drawer. Something like three drawers and a few shelves with a cabinet door. Far more practical.
John Tee Hi John - That lathe is long gone, by 2 years. The lathe came with that cabinet when I bought it. I have plenty of roll-away space to store tooling in, located close by to the machine anyway. It's funny, I actually removed the cabinet shortly after this was filmed. It obstructed the original look of the machine.
A proper job there. Not just a strip and paint. How common are the taper attachments in the US? I think both your machines had them on? I've only seen one come up for sale on fleabay in the last year in the UK, and that was with a lathe. I'm guessing that if a draw bar and collets regularly fetch $225, then a taper attachment is going to be $450-500 in the UK. How would that compare with US prices? Anyway excellent job, and thanks for posting.
Ok, just been on Boxford spares website. To make a taper attachment from spare parts would cost an equivalent of $920! Methinks i'll be making one from precision linear bearings and titanium shaft and still save hundreds. lol.
mark rainford Not sure - tapers can be tricky. Some feel that they're a waste and (never) get used, others love em' and wouldn't have a machine without them. I've never had a "need" for mine, but that doesn't mean I won't. I'm looking for some projects to make, that uses the taper. I'll be shooting a video on that in the coming weeks. Thanks for watching!
Hi Brad, I'm looking into buying a 1943 South Bend 9A lathe. Can you give me any advise as to what issues to look for? Are there shim's under the headstock for alignment with the tailstock? Any advise you could give me would be great. Thanks,
Did the ways on 40's & 50's SB 9's come with hand scraped ways? I don't see any scrape marks on my 1956 9A, even though the original owner (1 owner lathe) was a Model Engineer who made model engines, presumably with not a lot of wear on it.
I finally have mine torn down to begin the cleaning/stripping process (what's left of the paint). Would you happen to have the paint code for the color you used?
Fantastic job brad, in order to achieve the finish that you did, how many coats of paint were applied, how long did you wait between each coat, thanks for your time
What do you do to make the pieces so clean and shiny? Make a video showing your technique, because I bought a lathe of this one and would like to reform it. I'll wait for the video, okay?
Again a beauty!!Like the others..just AMAZING! How long did you need to compleet i?.Its hard to tell in the clip.But I can only imagine how much it was,as you dont miss even the smalest srew.I know,time is not a issue if you start this job,but I am just interrested in the time frame of the rebuild. Keep it up!! I rebuild old model engines,and know,the the endresult is the sweet reward,no mather the setbacks..Some peopel dont understand,that I spend houers with one smal part. Regards,Peter
Good looking machine. I look forward to the rest of the series. Just finished watching you're new lathe from PM - good job. What paint did you go with on this project? I been going back and forth on what to use on a Bridgeport milling restoration I am working. (sorry I did not search all these comments as you probably been ask this before. Music makes feel like I am watching the Band of Brothers.
Thanks! The paint code is Sherwin Williams and details can be found (on page 4 of the build diary) - the link is found in the description of the video.
excellent workmanship you should be very proud.dave in the uk
Excellent! Outstanding! Great Job. I have a SB9 Model A from 1937 an restored it to, I know how much work you invested here. A great machine and a peace of history. Thanks for documenting your work in this video!
Beautiful Restoration ..... What a Great choice of background muaic too
Do take a bow...very nicely done. How accurate is it, did you have to have the ways scraped?
dihskursiv Thanks man! Machine is very accurate. I can hold .0005 if I use use some finesse ;)
? Ace cuerdas metricas mml. O no
OCD? What's OCD about doing a thorough restoration of something you want to preserve? It's not only functional, but therapeutic ;-)
I'm heading out this morning to pick up a 1941 version 9A in similar condition. Your video is a true inspiration. Revealing the beauty, history and talent under those layers pays the utmost respect and resurrection to those that built the modern world we live in today. You've set the bar pretty high. I'll try my best. Much thanks.
Great job! I wonder what the run out is 1' from the chuck? What software did you use for the wonderful slide presentation?Thanks for sharing and keep up the fine work.
Excellent work, it turned out beautiful. Thank you for restoring such a piece for future generations.
Sorry for the loss of music. It returns around the 18-minute mark. The stupid copyright block. Other people use published music, I just don't get it...
Hey, basementshopguy !
Yhe little Southbend 9" Lathe, that's a Sweet Job ! you did on the restoration of thr lathe.
Wow ! Love the new Speed & feed charts you replaced ! I'm starting a Clausing 1964 restoration, can you or someone else
PLEASE give me a lead on where to get those beautiful speed & feed replacement charts !
Those really made the project POP !
Thanks,
Mark
Ohio
Bill - you should do it! It's very rewarding. Plus you'll be doing a great service to some of our (dwindling) American history!
Hi, I can't get enough of watching the South Bend 9 A lathe video. Congratulations What is the color formula for me to restore my model A here in Brazil. thanks!
Wow what a sad thing to do to a lovely vintage lathe. Some people have no idea. but you done a great job restoring her. She looks gorgeous. Fantastic job. Hope she gives you yrs of service. I'm in the process of restoring a 1939 Colchester master 6inch. Only downside is the rpm
I restored a 1959 Streamline Travel Trailer...it took 5 years. I can only imagine all the hours, research and elbow grease to finish this master job. I bet it's hard to cut your first chip !!!! Have you used it yet...?
I'm sure I speak from the rest of us ...glad you are as talented as you are.
Beautiful work/fun. Also, excellent editing and music.
great taste in music by the way
SB 9 was my 1st lathe. I bought a model C and have been converting it to an A, but I can't find what gears to use to make the gearbox ratio correct for the thread pitches. Was hoping to see the tooth counts on yours, but I might as well ask if you can tell me...great video. I had to clean and paint mine too, but now it looks and works like new!
Someone in Warsaw NY purchased the lathe? That’s where I grew up wow! You did an amazing job restoring it👍🏼
omg what a beauty! Well done!!!! I too have a 1955 9" model A I'm just now checking into what its going to take to restore it. I'd like to know more like paint type, rust remover etc etc. I'll follow the link you provided in the description. Awesome job!
I have a Hurcus 9" AR lathe, (its a renamed SouthBend lathe) built in South Australia so identical to yours but with bearings in the head stock. this was quite mesmerizing to watch. top job old son, well done.
Very nice resto, these machine built America and deserve to have a resto like this. Unfortunately it takes so much work to do a resto as nice you did on this machine... I bet the new owner is proud to have that machine, I would be !!
Absolutely gorgeous. I recently purchased a 1943 9A with the War Department tag still on it. Your video will be my inspiration to give the old girl a new lease on life.
I have a war vet 9A too from 1942. It needs restoration, but I keep using it for 'just one more project'. I do need to do it right and pass my beauty on to the next generation in good repair.
Thats a beautiful job right here!!! It was a pleasure to watch! keep on the good work!
Hi mate.
What a wonderful machine. I hope you shot the guy that owned the machine before you. That person should be disallowed from ever owning a machine again..... I also liked the music that accompanied the reportage. I think it is from a Jewish ghetto survivor.
Kind regards,
Marcel.
Incredible job. Your cleaning buffing and polishing make all the difference - have you made videos on your technique? What do you do about dings gouges and scratches? Thanks again great to watch.
All the paint codes are found in the link (see description) to the build thread. Tons of info on the entire project.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Awesome!!! I just sold my South Bend 13" (but kept the taper attachment) to get a 16" with riser blocks. Currently tearing it down also. I thought the taper would be compatible with the 16 but, it's not. Either way good luck on the new restore. It's definitely not an easy task, a lot of elbow grease is involved.
Hey Mr. Basement Shop Guy and all. I love your videos. They remind me of not just the machinery but a time in this country when everything seemed pure and straight forward. When people were proud of their country, and there was something to be proud of.
Fantastic Restoration, what a Beautiful Machine !!
Amazing work. Great video of before and after. That machine should be in a museum. It’s perfect. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Absolutely gorgeous. I just picked up a model B benchtop lathe. Same condition (without the paint job) as yours. I'm now convinced that I will be taking mine apart to do the same. Great Job!!
Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it.
Wow! Great job. I am crating mine right now to send to you. Take your time and how I wish I had something like that to start with.
And here I am years later after this paint code again lol. I am officially starting my 9a restoration.
Best lathe restoration I've seen to date!
Thank you!!
Great job, fine pictures, outstanding "music to surf by" !!!
Thanks !
My eyes tear up when I see the finished product!! Beautiful!!
Fantastic! Excellent restoration!!
Mate that has to be one of the best restos I've ever seen.
wow this is an amazing restore
its inspiring
Incredible attention to detail! Beautiful work sir!
Well done! Thanks for taking the time to show us the project.
Bom gosto , na reforma e no fundo musical , parabéns.
It turned out gorgeous. I wish you did a video series showing how, particularly how you get the steel so clean and bright, and how you did the gear chart and various tags.
Exceptional! I'll have to view some of your other vids to get tips on how to do some of that wonderful work. Just gorgeous.
Beautiful, just amazing . With the music, I half expected to see the band of brothers at the end of the video. Now that's perfection indeed.
WOW!!!! Brad you have done a superb job!!! Detail is amazing. I have been trying to find a decent Heavy 10 or 13 with no luck. Seeing this video makes me want one more.
+bgtgt Thanks!
PVC with degreaser is a great idea.
Thanks John.
Beautiful restoration. I really enjoyed watching the progress. No stone left unturned, huh? Very nice.
Thank you sir .This is most excellent. Great music,great pics. When I restore my 9a I hope it looks this good. Love the green in gray idea for the color.
perfeito , sem palavras você é com boas mãos na manutenção parabéns amigo cuida desta maquina ela merece , e uma reliquia
Nice Job! Well done! You convinced me I don't want to take mine apart. How many times during this job did you need a lathe?
PART 1
"Aside from learning the theory and practice, there is a third factor necessary to becoming a master in any art-the mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern; there must be nothing else in the world more important than the art. This holds true for music, for medicine, for carpentry, (machining)-and for love. And, maybe, here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures:
What a great job! I was wonderful to see a classic machine come back to life and look like it did the day it rolled out the door in South Bend! Thank you for sharing!
Outstanding work . . . . and one of the best slide shows Ive ever seen here , bravo sir !!
Hello. I hope you can help me. I have a SB 9" model A. But i don't have the " Inverted lathe glass". Do you know the sizes of all this parts?, sorry but I can't find this information. Thank you
Greetings
Olá, boa noite!
preciso de informações em relação a tinta usada, a fórmula para montar a cor desse torno e qual é o produto para tirar a ferrugem das peças?
Existe um kit para a montagem das engrenagens?
Qual feltro usar nos dosadores de óleo?
obrigado!
I cant read this. Can you translate?
Hello goodnight! Should the products be assembled against these products and the formula made to assemble these products? How did you treat the rust? Is there any kit to live like? The South Bend lathe was very beautiful. Congratulations I have one of the same model.
@@BasementShopGuy Hello goodnight! Should the products be assembled against these products and the formula made to assemble these products? How did you treat the rust? Is there any kit to live like? The South Bend lathe was very beautiful. Congratulations I have one of the same model.
I personally would had left it as it was if it was in good mechanical condition; I would had had the ways reground and gone through the gearboxes, and that's about it.
Well, that's a matter of personal taste. To me, that lathe looked horrific with the metallic blue/gray paint. And one of the aspects to my hobby is restoring to (as close to) factory as possible. As for the ways, look at them in the final pictures - they're pristine with nearly all the scraping in tact. Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much!
This is just fantastic what great work you do. Thanks for sharing
That was absolutely awesome. What a great job!!!!
Stunning job. Clearly you are a top notch craftsman with a bit of artiste thrown in. 9 years ago you mentioned it's gone. Was that in regard to this machine or do you still use it?
Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Did you scrape the ways and mating surfaces? Looks great. I have to start restoring mine, if I could just stop using it.
What's the charcoal and TSP mix about ? I understand the TSP but what does the charcoal do ?
Beautiful restoration. It almost seems a shame to actually use it to cut metal after all this work. (But I don't really mean that - a lathe is born to cut metal and denying it would be the real shame.)
I've had two SB9s: an early '40s with a brass plate asserting that it was subject to the War Materiels Board, and another plate assigning it to the Auburn Clutch Co. It was in very bad shape. The saddle had worn down so far that the ways had cut into the mounting holes for the oil wiper covers. The ways were visibly "sway-backed". Still, it gave me usable service until my father passed, and I inherited the second SB9 in my life.
My father got it new in the mid-60s, and it has had only light use in the intervening 50 years. To be sure, my father used it mostly as a wood turning lathe for the last ten years he had it, so it was fairly packed with oily sawdust. The paint is still factory fresh for the most part, with very few dings. Some of the bright metal is now lightly "browned", but there is no pitting anywhere. I'm about to convert it to 1 hp 3-phase with a programmable VFD to get braking and reversing on the fly (without spinning the chuck off).
I have a question about the serpentine belt. Doesn't that require a complete disassembly of the headstock and the jackshaft when it needs replacement? I've always used leather with skived/glued joints. (I can't stand the "slap" that a Clipper joint makes twice on every revolution.)
I've just subscribed to your channel, so don't be surprised to find comments popping up on your older videos (like this one). They generally aren't meant to be critical, but just musing on how I might have approached some particular problem, and thinking "out loud" about it. I am prone to stopping videos and commenting while an idea is fresh, only to discover that my question is covered later in the video.
I've begun posting a few videos of my own so, if you feel inclined, take a look. The best so far is the start of a series on replacing the CRT display in an older Anilam Crusader M (on a SuperMax mill) with a modern LCD display.
Peter W. Meek Pete - thanks for those nice words, I sure do appreciate that. You're lucky to have one of those War Babies. Mine was a 46, so from that "era" but not from the war. My Heavy-10 was a 42, so right smack in the middle. My goal is get another 9 - but only if it's a war baby.
You're gonna need to pull that spindle and counter-drive . Greg Haligan has a nice video on this:
ua-cam.com/video/U1agcVkQ63U/v-deo.html
But it's really easy - provided there's not a lot of rust and all the parts cooperate nicely.
- Good luck!
Just getting into machining. Found a 10k maybe. Really great video
I have the same lathe and wondered if you could send me the Sherwin-William paint code. Great colour
What a great project! Thanks for sharing this, I very much enjoyed watching your well made slideshow, the pace was perfect, and the music elegantly set the mood. You can see the love of fine detail in your work. Thank you for making this.
Best regards SSG Frank Novak
sgttacklebury This one was my personal favorite Frank. Just something about how she came out, the time period, etc.. Thanks so much for watching and commenting ;)
I am a gun guy(instructor) and shooter for more than 47 years, and as such I have a love of machined complex metal shapes carefully crafted to do a useful purpose. There is a real art to these machines, people who made them put in more than function. Please keep doing what you do, someday I might try this myself. Best regards, and Merry Christmas.
F.Novak
Fuck me dead, I love you :))))) ...it's PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would have taken advantage of the space underneath the stand with a full cabinet rather than a single drawer. Something like three drawers and a few shelves with a cabinet door. Far more practical.
John Tee Hi John - That lathe is long gone, by 2 years. The lathe came with that cabinet when I bought it. I have plenty of roll-away space to store tooling in, located close by to the machine anyway. It's funny, I actually removed the cabinet shortly after this was filmed. It obstructed the original look of the machine.
Evaporst and Scotchbrite wheel. The next project (currently in flight) is a South Bend lathe 13". I sold THIS VERY 9" to get it.
Beautiful. Do you mind me asking how long did that take to retire the lathe?
Great Job. It ended up probably just as good or better than new.
stunning amazing with beautiful music what an art piece :) :)
I have to respectfully thank the (music) for the tears... It makes me well up too. The composer of this soundtrack created a modern masterpiece.
Sorry I didn't see it if it was in the video, but what kind of paint did you use?
Very nice Job, well done.
NSTRAPPERHUNTER Thank you sir!
Great job, I'm updating my model B, to model A.
Biutifull my friend.
Thanks.
Stellar job. Outstanding
how do you repaint the brass labels? hoping to see a video of that
Thanks Denis, its gone now, but I was real happy with the results.
Very nice job on the rebuild. How did you get such a nice polish on the parts?
Jonathan Martell Didn't really polish it, the metal though (1215) finishes really shiny. Love to work with it.
A proper job there. Not just a strip and paint. How common are the taper attachments in the US? I think both your machines had them on? I've only seen one come up for sale on fleabay in the last year in the UK, and that was with a lathe. I'm guessing that if a draw bar and collets regularly fetch $225, then a taper attachment is going to be $450-500 in the UK. How would that compare with US prices?
Anyway excellent job, and thanks for posting.
Ok, just been on Boxford spares website. To make a taper attachment from spare parts would cost an equivalent of $920! Methinks i'll be making one from precision linear bearings and titanium shaft and still save hundreds. lol.
mark rainford Not sure - tapers can be tricky. Some feel that they're a waste and (never) get used, others love em' and wouldn't have a machine without them. I've never had a "need" for mine, but that doesn't mean I won't. I'm looking for some projects to make, that uses the taper. I'll be shooting a video on that in the coming weeks. Thanks for watching!
Hi Brad,
I'm looking into buying a 1943 South Bend 9A lathe.
Can you give me any advise as to what issues to look for?
Are there shim's under the headstock for alignment with the tailstock?
Any advise you could give me would be great.
Thanks,
Look for worn ways (worn "ridge"), slop in the leadscrew keyway, slop in the hand wheel. Hope that helps. Also look for videos on "hot to buy a lathe"
Did the ways on 40's & 50's SB 9's come with hand scraped ways? I don't see any scrape marks on my 1956 9A, even though the original owner (1 owner lathe) was a Model Engineer who made model engines, presumably with not a lot of wear on it.
Scraping was on all ways for South Bends. The non-hardened ways, loose their scraping really fast tho.
I finally have mine torn down to begin the cleaning/stripping process (what's left of the paint). Would you happen to have the paint code for the color you used?
That’s great! The paint formula is in one of my legs, restoration videos, or the drill press video. I don’t remember the code off hand.
Beautiful restoration. I so need to do my 9a
awesome work ! What year is this machine??
Fantastic job brad, in order to achieve the finish that you did, how many coats of paint were applied, how long did you wait between each coat, thanks for your time
Honestly just one coat. Using a small brush really laid it on thick. I have a video (scroll WAY back) and I show the brush, etc. glad you enjoyed it!
I like your work , salute you 🙏🙏🙏 best machine
Thank you sir!!
What do you do to make the pieces so clean and shiny? Make a video showing your technique, because I bought a lathe of this one and would like to reform it.
I'll wait for the video, okay?
Go WAY back to the beginning of my videos, I absolutely have a video showing the polishing of ball-cranks.
Hi can this gearbox fit on the model c ?
Again a beauty!!Like the others..just AMAZING! How long did you need to compleet i?.Its hard to tell in the clip.But I can only imagine how much it was,as you dont miss even the smalest srew.I know,time is not a issue if you start this job,but I am just interrested in the time frame of the rebuild.
Keep it up!!
I rebuild old model engines,and know,the the endresult is the sweet reward,no mather the setbacks..Some peopel dont understand,that I spend houers with one smal part.
Regards,Peter
How do you restore worn spindles, axes, bearings, gears and ways? Every lathe restoration on youtube is mostly a cleanup and paint job.
I typically only buy machines that are mechanically sound, as in this case. Or, try to source NOS parts.
And the music is good Too..You did a Wonderfull job on it !!!
A masterful work of art…
Good looking machine. I look forward to the rest of the series. Just finished watching you're new lathe from PM - good job. What paint did you go with on this project? I been going back and forth on what to use on a Bridgeport milling restoration I am working. (sorry I did not search all these comments as you probably been ask this before. Music makes feel like I am watching the Band of Brothers.