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Next in the disassembly and teardown queue for this lathe was the cross slide. Only a few pieces to it. This lathe had been retrofitted with a larger 250 thousands dial, thus the feed screw and nut were “adapted” for an 8 TPI threaded screw. No real surprises here, except for the dial locking screw was not what it should be. I’m replacing it with a knurled thumb screw and a brass shoe after everything is painted.

Started the tear down of the carriage with the compound. The compounds sits atop the cross slide and serves to add another layer of control when cutting on a lathe (i.e. tapers, screwcutting, etc.). I’m just covering the disassembly in this video. I’ll paint it before it goes back together.

This is the second of two welding squares I drew using Fusion 360 and then had cut on the waterjet at the CWRU Thinkbox maker space. Just a simple video of what steps I took to tack it together and weld it up. The welds aren’t perfect, but it is square. And practice, practice, practice.

Get the DXF files here:
Standard square: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1079117806/welding-square-dxf-files-for
Multi square: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1093722018/welding-multi-square-dxf-files-for

A quick win for this week. Tore down and cleaned up the thread chasing dial. This dial engages with the lead screw and is used to assist the operator in lining up the cutter when making multiple threading passes. Not much to it.

In this short video, I tackle cleaning and reassembling the 3 jaw chuck. This is a Westcott chuck, that thankfully was modified to come apart easier, but doesn’t look like anyone ever did. There was so much greasy gunked up swarf inside this chuck, I am surprised it even opened or closed.

Decided to start “simple” and rebuild the tailstock. Such a seemingly simple object is comprised of quite a few pieces. I used a refurbishing guide I got from eBay (link below) along with a kit of consumables to rebuild the lathe. Although the book doesn’t have every detail of every difference on these lathes, there’s enough there to make disassembly and reassembly possible.

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at more metal machining and started looking around for a older metal lathe. I came across this gem about 60 miles from where I live. This is the first part of a journey into hopefully restoring/refurbishing this 1941 South Bend 13″x5′ Lathe.

Thanks to Joe, TJ, Mike and Chris for the help and borrowed equipment.

I bought this vise a long time ago. I noticed it had a hairline crack in the base. It’s a good vice, I’ve used it more times than I can count. Now that I have a TIG machine and have learned a thing or two, I decided I would go ahead and fix it. I used 1/16″ TIG brazing rod to repair the crack. (And yes, I realize I misspelled “vise” in the video. LOL!)

My dad gave me this 10″ Craftsman table saw years ago. Comes in handy from time to time. But where I am keeping it at the moment, makes it difficult to use. So I built something to help make it more user friendly.