South Bend Photos!

[HMF]

Share your South Bend vintage photos with us!

I will kick it off with this photo of the employees of the South Bend Lathe Works, circa 1910...

Enjoy!


Best,


Nelson

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[HMF]

Photos of the old factory, now demolished:

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[LocomotiveMachinist]

This is my 13x60 tool room precision lathe, build date May 1, 1930

 

[SWIGIN]

This is my 1922 9'' O series lathe.


I wonder if any of the people in that 1910 photo helped build my lathe?

 

[bctexas]

This was my first lathe, a 9x3 built in 1935. I bought it from a friend whose father was in the process of moving to assisted living. It was in kind of rough shape, having been unused for several years. It also had quite a bit of wear. This machine fulfilled a bucket list item of learning to run a lathe. I had a lot of fun with it, and made some useful stuff. I sold it on and replaced it with a PM 1236 about four years ago.

 

[dan.blasingame]

This is my 1922 9'' O series lathe.
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I wonder if any of the people in that 1910 photo helped build my lathe?

nice

 

[RickKr]

SB9A that I had in the early/mid-2000s. Large dials, taper attachment, 3C collets and more. I had fitted it with a VFD. Made some nice stuff with it. Traded it and quite a bit of restoration labor on a pre-WWII Rivet 1020.