Finished restoring my south bend lathe

[JF36]

Today I finished restoring my south bend 9B lathe. I stripped the whole thing down and put new felt wicks in and repainted it. The whole process took about 2 week working on it a couple hours each day. Now it is time to start to purchase tooling and actually make something on it. The first picture is before the restoration the rest are after.

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Looks good. But it looks too clean. You should scatter some wood or resin chips on the desktop as a placeholder until you get your tooling and start making chips.

Good luck with it.

Ed

 

[PenPal]

John,

I have a 1967 Model Hercus almost Identical with your lathe and I have lots of info about them here they are not made any more but there are quite a number about. I use mine for some task or another continually like another arm.

A few pics. There is an on line manual as well.

If I can assist send me a pm with your E Mail addy I can send pics etc.

Kind regards Peter.