Coop's 9" SB Workshop Lathe

[CoopVA]

Update!

Took the lathe apart to move it into the new shop.

In the interim, a good friend passed along another 9A that he saved from the scrapper! The bed is a 3 1/2'. The headstock is full of rust and has a flat belt pulley cone. The motor and drive are rusted up pretty good too. It didn't have a tail stock.

The bed was coated in rust and grime. The ways cleaned up real well and it has some nice flaking visible! My "old" 9A's apron did not have the compound feed, but the "new" one does!

So, now the question is, do I take the best of both and make one, or do I just make two?

I'm thinking that I could use the "old" head, tail stock and drive on the "new" bed along with the "new" gearbox and compound.

I'm thinking the most critical thing is to keep the bed and compound together. The rest should be ok to swap around right?







So far, I have the "new" gearbox disassembled... I am going to go through everything one section at a time, and then decide how it should go together...




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[Charles Spencer]

I'd make two lathes. It can't be that hard to find a new tail stock. I've got one if all else fails. And it's nice having two lathes. Besides, you might fix one up as a secondary operation lathe with your milling attachment or an indexer/rotary table and you wouldn't need another tail stock.

Charles

 

[CoopVA]

I'd make two lathes. It can't be that hard to find a new tail stock. I've got one if all else fails. And it's nice having two lathes. Besides, you might fix one up as a secondary operation lathe with your milling attachment or an indexer/rotary table and you wouldn't need another tail stock.

Charles

Good points Charles. I may take you up on the tail stock...

All of it is going to be cleaned up and restored, so however it gets done, I will still have two lathes. I think for efficiency and getting one up and running quickly, my plan seems logical to me. That way I can have a good machine running while I tackle the crustier pieces that need more work.


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[mattthemuppet2]

wow, lathes seem to be like London buses - none for hours then a bunch all at once! Personally, I'd make one lathe for myself from the best bits and then sell the second as parts or a project lathe to buy tooling for the first lathe (good 4 jaw, QCTP, even a DRO perhaps). I'd rather have one good well tooled lathe than 2 decent but poorly tooled lathes. Actually, I'd like to have one decent lathe, but that's another story

 

[CoopVA]

I'm leaning towards building one out of all the best and keeping the leftovers for parts... May sell or donate some of it to those in need that are here...

Got a QCTP and a 4 jaw... A steady rest and the milling attachment... A DRO would be nice...


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[CoopVA]

Continued work on the gearbox today. Let it all sit in the electrolysis tank overnight and put three coats of paint on the paintable parts...

Took apart the tail stock and put that in the tank...

 

[rmack898]

That's looking good.

And I also vote to take the best parts and put them into one lathe.

 

[CoopVA]

Thanks Mack.

Worked on the bed and tail stock today...






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[CoopVA]

Saddle, Compound, Apron and Gearbox mounted!

Thinking about investing in one of those new Thread Charts for the gearbox...





Started working on the Headstock. Will be using parts from both to make one good one. The bearing surfaces on one are very scored.






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[Ulma Doctor]

nice work, she seems to be looking good so far!!!:thumbsup:

the top headstock looks scored for sure!!!,
the lower is a cast iron bearing surface that looks like it's in pretty good shape