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Anyone have experience with old metal lathes?

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So I picked up some lathes recently.  I haven't used a lathe for about 10 years, and never anything as old as these.  

The grey one is a 1935 South Bend 9" workshop lathe.  The blue one is an Atlas/Craftsman 618 6" lathe.  The craftsman didn't come with a full set of change gears.  The South Bend is pretty complete.  Other misc tooling and whatnot were included, and both are in very good shape aside from needing a cleaning.   The photos are when I pulled them out of the truck, tooling and the other parts aren't shown.  

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    Nice.  (still working on that video for you by the way, probably this week) What I really want to work up to is a larger lathe and knee mill.  I have a list of stuff that I want to build.  

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    Yea I know he's got at least a couple 10+ ft ones and a few smaller ones. I just have no clue how to even use em so I steer clear!

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    @notlimah... Youtube it! I learned how to do basic things in a day. Other than that experience playing with it and a great teacher can speed up the process. Sorry @CSM I'm no help. You know how t

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2 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Ummm... No pictures... :think:

how bout now?

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4 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

 

Those are sweet little lathes you got there. Small duty but still can do quite a bit of work. All metal work is done slowly anyways.

Thanks. I am not sure what projects they are going to take on, but it should be fun to learn on them.  

My dads got more lathes then he knows what to do with. Wish I lived closer so he could show me how to run them since they're completely foreign to me

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16 minutes ago, notlimah said:

My dads got more lathes then he knows what to do with. Wish I lived closer so he could show me how to run them since they're completely foreign to me

Nice.  (still working on that video for you by the way, probably this week)

What I really want to work up to is a larger lathe and knee mill.  I have a list of stuff that I want to build.  

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    Yea I know he's got at least a couple 10+ ft ones and a few smaller ones. I just have no clue how to even use em so I steer clear!

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    @notlimah... Youtube it! I learned how to do basic things in a day. Other than that experience playing with it and a great teacher can speed up the process.

    Sorry @CSM I'm no help. You know how to reach me if you decide you don't "need" one though!

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    3 minutes ago, TFaoro said:

    @notlimah... Youtube it! I learned how to do basic things in a day. Other than that experience playing with it and a great teacher can speed up the process.

    Sorry @CSM I'm no help. You know how to reach me if you decide you don't "need" one though!

    Aren't they still doing summer field session?  

    And give me some time, I gotta get them cleaned up and working first.  Theres at least two decades of dust on them.  

    2 minutes ago, CSM said:

    Aren't they still doing summer field session?

    Yeah... about 3 hours total on a lathe. I learned way more on a lathe in the shop from a friend.

    3 minutes ago, CSM said:

    And give me some time, I gotta get them cleaned up and working first.  Theres at least two decades of dust on them

    Just reminding you :whistle:

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    6 minutes ago, TFaoro said:

    Yeah... about 3 hours total on a lathe. I learned way more on a lathe in the shop from a friend.

    Just reminding you :whistle:

    Fair enough.  I think they gave us 3 days back a few years ago.  Still, I didn't know much of anything.  

    6 minutes ago, CSM said:

    Fair enough.  I think they gave us 3 days back a few years ago.  Still, I didn't know much of anything.  

    Yeah it's pretty sad how little hands on experience most students get without going out of their way to get it.

    4 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

    I thought your moving? :poke:

    He's already moved to Nick and I's part of the woods :stirthepot:  His pickup is pretty nice too :thumbup2: 

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    4 minutes ago, TFaoro said:

    Yeah it's pretty sad how little hands on experience most students get without going out of their way to get it.

    Sad.  Prior to me, back before the state got on the school for requiring more credits than a masters degree for a B.Sc...  Back then, summer field session included a very rigorous machine shop time of a couple weeks.  Likely early 2000s that changed.  

    4 minutes ago, TFaoro said:

    He's already moved to Nick and I's part of the woods :stirthepot:  His pickup is pretty nice too :thumbup2: 

    Yep.  I am back in the Rockies and free of the south!  :thumb1:  Thanks for the compliment.  Your truck is sweet also quite fast and and very very clean.  

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    What nothing nice to say about my POS? Wait. Mean truck hahahaha.

     

    Yea been good to shoot the **** with csm.

    50 minutes ago, Me78569 said:

    What nothing nice to say about my POS? Wait. Mean truck hahahaha.

    I can tell you I want you to shove that turbo + controller into my truck so I can use it as a twin setup! :stirthepot:  Your poor truck never saw any love before you got it....

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    1 hour ago, Me78569 said:

    What nothing nice to say about my POS? Wait. Mean truck hahahaha.

    Yea been good to shoot the **** with csm.

    Aside from the mystery klunk and moog, your truck ain't bad.  It ain't shiny, but meh. Heck, folks look at my truck and don't think there are twenty teeth in there betwixt all the occupants anyway.  

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