1922 south bend 9'' lathe restore ......New stuff

[SWIGIN]

looks like its a 1922 from the casting date i found cast into the inside of the bed as well as the info in the link posted above.

i'll have to change the tital of this thread if im right.

[honda250sx]

those ways look nice. you can still see the scraping pattern in them. Good rule of thumb when looking at old manual lathes is to feel the ways with a thumb nail. If there are ridges in it stay away. its seen serious use without much lubrication. Usually this occurs mostly in the Sweet Spot of the lathe. Up near the chuck where most work is done.

[SWIGIN]

yeah they do look nice other then the pitting from rust...i cant believe how little ware this thing has.

must of just sat around for 50 years

[SWIGIN]

the other day i got the bed done and i started putting it together last night.

right color or not this thing turned out alot nicer then i thought it could......the ways were so flaky with rust i thought it would need major machining to bring it back.

i just have a few gaurds and the head to clean and paint yet.....and build a nice heavy steel table to put this on.

the brass tag in the last pic was hard to get a picture of with out a huge glare...it is way brighter then it looks.

[SWIGIN]

here is the info i got from a south bend site....the guy realy knows his stuff

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Originally Posted by SWIGIN
I was told it was a 1941 south bend 9'' swing with a 3 foot bed....from looking at some pictures on here it seems to be a 1922.


it's a 1922,

27292, 9" x 3' Bed, "O" series Catalog No. 25-Y, Standard Change Gear lathe with DFC counter shaft drive. Bed casting date is 3/21/22

The model 25 was a very good and hard working lathe, priced right and with power cross feed. You have what looks like one in very good shape, pictures please.
Is it on floor legs or is it a bench lathe?

Steve

[aaron7]

I didn't know people restored stuff like that. Very cool!

[SWIGIN]

thanks man, i think its neat as hell


heres some pics of my lathe table i just built. the top is 3'x4' 3/16 plate and the legs are 2 3/8 pipe and i used 2''x2'' 3/16 angle for the top frame.

the 3rd pic is of the aluminum spash sheild im mounting on the wall for the oil fling to hit.

last pic is just the 87 year old drum switch i cleaned up.

[honda250sx]

Looking good wayne!

[SWIGIN]

well its just about done....just need to do the one arm and the gear door but here's how it sits now.

i got a 6.5'' atlas chuck off ebay...its a little big but the jaws don't hit the table when fully open.

the last pic is of the take up nut we just made at HRE....nether of us realy threaded on a lathe before but we got it.

[brapp]

wow looks cool
i liek this old stuff

[SWIGIN]

yeah, i think it looks neat too. i had no idea how it would turn out but luckily it didnt need more then a few simple to make parts.

i got my first oil fling line going up my newly painted wall....lol (you can see it in the first 2 pics)

today im going to put my aluminum splash gaurd on the wall and try to set up the tail stock with the chuck and get to turning.

[brapp]

swiggin u plannin pn puttign it to work and makin soem parts for some of us local boys?

[SWIGIN]

sure man

i always made most of my parts, or at least what i could but i have made many parts on HREs lathes for years. and back in the late 80s i was turning new 200x front axles out of tool steel in high school metal shop....lol.

so its not like im new to this i just need to get set up alittle......but yeah man just ask if you need something.

[brapp]

yeah buddy i ahve soem toolign jsut not a decent lathe. mabey we can do a little bartering.someday

[SWIGIN]

more pics later but i got the lathe all dialed in but my feed speed is a little fast and the cuts are rough.

it only came with 1 extra gear...a 80 tooth monster.....i need to get some gears for this thing.




edit.... well i found a use for the 80 tooth gear, it has a key way so that makes it a screw gear. well i threw it on and it seems a LOT better now....i just need to get a bigger motor for it sometime but it works good as is, you just have to go slow.

heres a pic of the 80 tooth after i put it on and im holding the one i took off up to it. and i'll throw a shot up off the pulley system i ended up useing....im letting gravity do the work but as you can see i need to pile stuff on it yet to get it tight enough....lol