I bought an old South Bend 14.5" lathe a while back, I called today and gave the company the serial number. the guy I spoke with then informed me my lathe was built in 1941 and was first bought by Remington Arms Co in Colorado

then I found this

1941: Remington Arms Company ammunition factory established in Lakewood, now the site of the Denver Federal Center; the largest contract awarded by the federal government in Colorado up to that time.

kinda cool I thought

Very cool.
Since you don't have an FFL and are not authorized that piece of equipment I will come up on Saturday and take posession before the ATF hears about it :D

Very cool.
Since you don't have an FFL and are not authorized that piece of equipment I will come up on Saturday and take posession before the ATF hears about it :D

not if you dont make it snappy with my parts first fawker......


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not if you dont make it snappy with my parts first fawker......


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I will bring them with me :D

Seriously though, how much did the lathe set you back/

is it 3-phase?

Is it running?

I will bring them with me :D

Seriously though, how much did the lathe set you back/

is it 3-phase?

Is it running?

I paid 2300 with a storage table/bench thing full of tooling/tool holders/carbide inserts

not a killer deal...... it is 3 phase but I had a static converter for my mill, I just wired them together and have run both at the same time, it runs, Ive made some parts but the brass cross feed nut was badly worn (83.00$ new) and the half nuts (for threading) were shot (150$ new) and it has a taper attachment, a 3 jaw and 4 jaw chuck, tail stock and a concave radius cutter

there arnt great deals around the metro area...... supply/demand


http://denver.craigslist.org/tls/804445150.html I looked at this one, mainly because I bought 2 band saws from the guy... he has tooling and a Kent knee mill for sale...

The older south Bends are :grinpimp:. Just don't buy one made within the last 20 years

Very cool. You should make a plaque or something to hang next to the lathe describing it's history.

Sweet deal on the lathe and history :D

That's cool history. I'm still trying to track down the story on my Sebastian. It was supposed to have been on a Navy battleship at the end of WWII, but which ship and the details I'm not sure about.

pretty cool that it helped win at least one war, maybe 2

That's cool history. I'm still trying to track down the story on my Sebastian. It was supposed to have been on a Navy battleship at the end of WWII, but which ship and the details I'm not sure about.




You have a lathe in working order??


I may need to borrow it sometime soon... :D