SB 9 Rebuild

[steamer]

OK the crate is done!

Now to get a frieght forwarder and find a trucking company...

Dave

[zeeprogrammer]

That's some crate! Being shipped eh? To quote someone else..."Good luck with that." 

[Don1966]

Nice job on the crate Dave, I know that you anxious to finally get it off the the grinders. Good luck hope all goes well.

Don

[steamer]

Thanks Don and Zee!   The grinder house is in Illinois....about 1200 miles....so no driving trip for me......

It'll be insured....

The name of the place is"

Forest City Grinding.

Dave Johnson Proprieter.

Dave

[Maryak]

Nice crate 

Just seeing that should make the grinder mob respect  the lathe. I just hope the carriers are good, about 50% here think the word fragile means let's see how hard we can throw it.

Best Regards
Bob

[swilliams]

Hope it goes well Dave

Steve

[steamer]

Me too guys!    I found a trucking company about a mile from where I work that is competitive and has enough insurance to cover the cost of the package as part of the deal.    ....Time to pack it up!
Got pricing from truckers in the area of the shop.....WOW!   $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$   they wanted more to insure than the cost of the shipping!


Dave

[steamer]

Bob
That was the intent of the crate.   Show them i care

Ive had some good discussions with the owner too.   Coming up with a drawing was key!

Dave

[steamer]

Crated!  Ready to go!









Dave

[steamer]

West bound and down!   Loaded up and truckin!

I'm excited.....and terrified.....guess we'll see!

Dave

[rhitee93]

Fair winds and following seas 

[Don1966]

Dave glad to see it finally on it way. Let us know when it returns.

Don

[steamer]

Well.....Papa smurf has some work to do on the rest of it....stay tuned!

Dave

[steamer]

Added a Keats angle plate and tailstock die holder to the list of accessories so far.

I need to add indexing to the spindle.    I am considering a version of the SB way....looks like this.



I'm thinking instead of a block bolted to the headstock, I'd anchor a block to the bench or even better, anchored to  the inner ways of the bed with an index arm holding the index pin.  I'll need to disassemble the HS and machine the index holes in the cone pulley.   That way it's completely independant of what is in the spindle.  I think 1 row of 60 will cover 90% of most things I do...beyond that we get into spindle indexing with a dividing head....which I haven't finalized yet.....though If I can think of a nice universal mount that doesn't interfer with collet draw bars and such...I'll do that instead.

Dave

[sbwhart]

Bin following your adventure with the SB for some time Dave and it brings back lots of memories, the first lathes we were let lose on in the aprentice shop were South Bends can't remember which model but a bit smaller than your's they were all lease lend jobs sent over in WW2.  Also did a bit of slide ways grinding on an old brown and sharp grinder I think that one was WW1 vintage lovely machine though that had been well looked after.

Looking forward to the winter scrape 

Stew