New lathe and tool gloat. Pic heavy

[JF36]

Today I picked up this lathe I found on craigslist. It is a South Bend 9b lathe. It has been well taken care of. There is little wear on the ways. The lathe has everything it came out of the box with and more. The first 7 pictures are of the lathe and what came with it. The remainder are the contents of a machinist tool box that I bought from the same guy. I payed 500 for the lathe and 50 for the full machinist tool box. How do you think I did? Let the cleanup begin.

 

[dbledsoe]

Looks like you got your monet's worth just in tooling. The lathe was a bonus. Way to go.

 

[yort81]

Wow!! Congratulations!! You did AWESOME!! About two months ago...I picked up a South Bend 9A.... With NO tooling...no Tool holder .. a couple of teeth on two different gears missing... and some other smaller problems... for $450 off of craigs list.... so in comparison.... WELL Done... (I am currently renovating mine....Im working on the gear box today and doing some painting )

 

[JF36]

Looks like you got your monet's worth just in tooling. The lathe was a bonus. Way to go.

Thank you

Wow!! Congratulations!! You did AWESOME!! About two months ago...I picked up a South Bend 9A.... With NO tooling...no Tool holder .. a couple of teeth on two different gears missing... and some other smaller problems... for $450 off of craigs list.... so in comparison.... WELL Done... (I am currently renovating mine....Im working on the gear box today and doing some painting )

I got lucky the guy did not want it. It came with a house he bought and he needed the space. It is going to take a lot of cleaning and maybe a new coat of paint.

 

[Paul in OKC]

Ya done good!