eBay lathe

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30 April 2017 at 09:12 #295586
Alan Waddington 2
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Came across this on eBay, nice lathe for someone……however the unusual provenance in the description made me chuckle…..😁

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30 April 2017 at 09:12 #18493
Alan Waddington 2
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30 April 2017 at 09:20 #295587
Hopper
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LOL, yep he certainly has one of a kind there.

Looks like a lovely old machine with a good pile of tooling with it. Never seen the likes of that little dividing head before.
30 April 2017 at 09:27 #295590
Andrew Evans
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how do you make a glass eye with a lathe?
30 April 2017 at 09:34 #295594
Chris Evans 6
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Lovely find, not the sort of machine to appeal to my needs but only around 10 miles from me.
30 April 2017 at 10:02 #295604
Clive Foster
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Love the shrouded chrome levered switch. Looks like a common light switch but the innards are seriously upgraded. Sort of nice detail you just don't see today. Hardly HSE friendly but nice.

Grinding wheel is um "worrying".

Lathe is actually a SouthBend 9" with another badge screwed over the proper one. Presumably the supplier as even the crudest passer offer would surely have removed the right badge first.

Clive.
30 April 2017 at 12:30 #295620
Hopper
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Posted by Andrew Evans on 30/04/2017 09:27:16:

how do you make a glass eye with a lathe?

With great care, no doubt. Maybe they were turned from plastic rather than glass? I don't see any obvious glass-eye holding jigs or turning tools so I guess only grandpa will ever know, and maybe Sammy Davis Jnr.
30 April 2017 at 12:43 #295626
Bob Stevenson
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/07/21/eye.making.art/

….This very skilled lady eye maker uses a very nice little lathe…
30 April 2017 at 14:04 #295631
Rik Shaw
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"how do you make a glass eye with a lathe?"

Just turn it
30 April 2017 at 16:40 #295649
Jeff Dayman
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I'm sure Sammy Davis Jr would have been glad to see it.

Anyway as others have said it is a South Bend 9" lathe, re-badged by a dealer of some kind. For 150 UK pounds it would be a bargain, with all the shown tooling. I especially like the two micrometer stops. The dividing head ins interesting. These machines are built well and even if abused in previous lives will make good work. Lots of good spares and some new repro parts in the USA for these machines.

I'd get rid of the grinding wheel , myself… JD
30 April 2017 at 17:28 #295653
Speedy Builder5
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Interesting to see micrometer carriage stops both sides of the saddle.
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