South bend 9x36 lathe

[Tincamp01]

I had this lathe given to me with the understanding that I would fix it up and use it, or pass it on to someone who would use it. I’ve acquired all the needed pieces and it’s pretty much assembled. It’s a basic manual change gear lathe, without the change gears. I have a full set, but they are used with my other SB lathe. It does not have a chuck, as I couldn’t find a donor for free.

So here’s the deal. It’s taking up space, I don’t use it, and it needs a home. If you have a use for it (not to sell it and make some money) it’s yours for the asking. But it’s too heavy to ship so you have to be somewhere near Fulton County NY to come and pick it up. Send me a message, I’ll provide my email and some pics if you’re interested. I would guess that the lathe and the base plate it mounts on weight 175lbs.

Hopefully somebody wants to decent little lathe to learn on, or putter with.

[Tincamp01]

Just bumping this for another view

[BCRider]

I thought I was being generous with my free collets.... This is mighty nice of you to have done that work and offer it for free now. It deserves a "Like". Here's to it finding an appreciative home.

[Doozer]

I have a 1927 SB 9" Jr. lathe
all original, that I can't seem
to give away. The world had
changed. Freaking kinds and
their cel phone babysitters.

-Doozer

[Tincamp01]

Ive asked around, none of my kids friends are into anything like this. All computer stuff. I want to respect the wishes of the guy that gave it to me and I have to think somewhere out there, there is a taker for this machine. I’ll keep looking for a new owner.

[RB211]

Ive asked around, none of my kids friends are into anything like this. All computer stuff. I want to respect the wishes of the guy that gave it to me and I have to think somewhere out there, there is a taker for this machine. I’ll keep looking for a new owner.

No one from the Finger Lakes Live Steamers wants it?

[Bob Engelhardt]

What am I missing - is the problem not with the lathe itself, but with a too-limited "market"? I.e., is it just that your local audience is too small?

Oh, yeah ... Fulton County - 533 sq miles & population 53,000. An hour from Albany & 2 from Syracuse.

[sid pileski]

I’m in Syracuse area, but I really have no need of it.
Crags list??

[RB211]

I’m in Syracuse area, but I really have no need of it.
Crags list??

Yeah, you already have one

[reggie_obe]

Have you offered it on any other forums? Maybe the one that has a SouthBend specific group?

[Doozer]

I really think people who like making parts on
a lathe and a milling machine are a very small
segment of the population today.
For me, I like being able to create something.
When I was a kid, I built mini-bikes and go carts.
I used the SB lathe that I am trying to sell/give
away to make my first vee belt pulley to put on
my 3 speed transmission for the go cart I built.
If I could not find parts I needed at the hardware
store or the go cart catalogues, I could make them.
Then I got a mill to make keyways in shafts. Again,
for mini-bikes and go carts. This when I figured out
that an Atlas drill press with an X-Y table, ends up
with the chuck falling off its taper. When I get my
own (crappy) Atlas 10" lathe, one of the first projects
I did was to make an exhaust manifold flange adapter
so I could take the heat riser valve off the manifold
on my first truck. It is just nice to be able to make
parts to do the projects you want, when you can't
buy them. Making a stepped stud or special bolt
on your lathe in the shop is GOLD for me.
But I make things. I fix things. I restore old things.
I guess no one does that either.
It is a throw away society. Because of this throw
away attitude (big business profit motivated)
the environment for sure suffers pollution and
plastic trash everywhere. (fatal flaw of plastic
vs glass, is plastic floats, glass sinks). Life has been
made too easy, and jobs have been made too easy.
Lots of people have easy jobs, then easy jobs have
become a status symbol. Easy I mean stressful office
jobs, not hands dirty manufacturing jobs. Even the
manufacturing jobs, people come to work like they
are going to the gym. Sweat pants and long fingernails.
No work ethic or professionalism is non existent.
Do as little as possible, and look busy till lunch or the
quitting time. Don't make it right, just make it.
No skilled labor anymore. No training anymore.
Hire them with job experience like, pulling out
chicken hearts and put them making mechanical
assemblies. Yeah, that translates. Management
thinks anyone can do any job. The co-workers will
show the new people how. Got a 20 year old
young lady loading and unloading a CNC machine.
Sitting on a chair on her phone. Dressed like a day
at highschool. Carbide drill broke, end mill broke.
Part is ruined. Machine is crashed. Operators
don't need to look for broken tools. Just keep
running. Unreal. Now 5 tools broke. On and on.
This is how companies try (!) to compete in
America. Want to buy a hobby lathe? I got
Facebook and Instagram. Can't find good people?
No machine shop in high school. No auto shop.
Master mechanic, just replace the part that the
computer says to. They don't rebuild transmissions
anymore. Just install a new one. From cars and
trucks to Cats and Komatsu. No one can !
Turn your brake drums on a lathe?
What is a lathe ?

-D

[RB211]

When you look at most of the newer YouTube channels, the maker groups, etc, what do you notice?
I'll tell you what I notice, EVERYONE is going CNC, the manual machines are placed in supportive rolls, but the bread and butter is with CNC.
This is good for those that want manual machines, less competition. However, I will say that PM is having issues keeping stock of his manual machines.
The hobby is evolving, adopting CNC.

[Doozer]

I not long ago, bought a CNC Bridgeport type mill.
Even I am coming around ! ! !

-D

[RB211]

I not long ago, bought a CNC Bridgeport type mill.
Even I am coming around ! ! !

-D

Wow!!! Now we just need Paul to follow.

[Doozer]

I just found the 4th axis indexer that plugs into
my Milltronics Bridgeport. Now maybe I can cut
a 127 tooth gear for making one of my lathes
cut millimeters. But then, getting a servo drive
and a spindle encoder to play master-follower
can set any ratio I could want on a lathe, so
maybe better in the end.

--D