10K Gap Bed???

[rwm]

I have never seen this. Pricey but what a great rebuild this would make!

10K South bend Lathe GAP BED LATHE LONG BED RARE TO SEE GAP 115 | eBay

LOOK AT ORIGINAL FLAKEING ON BED HAND DONE FROM FACTORY. NEEDS CLEANING WILL BE CLEANED UP WHEN WE ARE DONE MORE PHOTOS SOON . WE DO HAVE COVER FOR SWITCH.

www.ebay.com

 

[Ulma Doctor]

Oil flaking is best performed on the surfaces you can’t see- the underside of the carriage, the underside of the cross slide, the underside of the compound, the underside of the tailstock.
Oil flaking creates a void that fills with oil and gets trapped.
The oil acts as a bearing surface, rather than metal to metal contact .
Hydraulic principle is that liquids cannot be compressed, the oil flaked surface (when oil is present) has lower drag, than just machined surfaces (also with oil present) with little or no provision for oil retention.

I would like to see closer pictures to see how “factory” the scraping was.
Another thing I question is if the bed is hardened or not-oil flaking or scraping hardened materials is dubious at best.

To quote John C. McGinley from the movie Platoon,
“I got a bad feeling about this one, Sarge”

 

[woodchucker]

I have never seen this. Pricey but what a great rebuild this would make!

10K South bend Lathe GAP BED LATHE LONG BED RARE TO SEE GAP 115 | eBay

LOOK AT ORIGINAL FLAKEING ON BED HAND DONE FROM FACTORY. NEEDS CLEANING WILL BE CLEANED UP WHEN WE ARE DONE MORE PHOTOS SOON . WE DO HAVE COVER FOR SWITCH.

www.ebay.com

not only the gap bed, but take a look at the cross slide. I have never seen that wide cross slide before.