Hi everyone! My name is Dustin and im located in south central Pennsylvania. I just finished a refurb of a Logan 11" lathe a few months back and wanted to post the process here. Some of you may have seen a few of these if you're a member of the yahoo group.
Story: I had a small Atlas lathe that I refurbished a few years back and wanted to upgrade to something I could actually work with steel on (haha). I picked up a Southbend 10k with a ton of tooling for a steal and planned to convert that over to a "toolroom" model by retrofitting the cabinet, bed, and headstock from a lathe in better shape. Long story short, I found a cabinet/bet/headstock in Philly and drove out to get it. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was actually picking the cabinet up from 611 machine sales who deal in tool resale. To my surprise, they had a nice little Logan turret lathe buried in the middle of their lathe selection. I had my heart set on a Logan for a while but just couldn't find one which is why I had settled on the 10k. I made an offer and the owner was gracious enough to let me take the Logan (along with the SB cabinet assembly) and send a check in the following week as I didn't have enough cash with me. I ended up parting the SB out, made a ton of money off the thing and paid for all of the Logan while managing to keep any interchangeable tooling (2 buck chucks, tons of tailstock chucks, steady rest, micrometer stop, etc, etc). That's pretty much where this story begins so ill let the photos do the rest of the talking.. Photos coming shortly
Story: I had a small Atlas lathe that I refurbished a few years back and wanted to upgrade to something I could actually work with steel on (haha). I picked up a Southbend 10k with a ton of tooling for a steal and planned to convert that over to a "toolroom" model by retrofitting the cabinet, bed, and headstock from a lathe in better shape. Long story short, I found a cabinet/bet/headstock in Philly and drove out to get it. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was actually picking the cabinet up from 611 machine sales who deal in tool resale. To my surprise, they had a nice little Logan turret lathe buried in the middle of their lathe selection. I had my heart set on a Logan for a while but just couldn't find one which is why I had settled on the 10k. I made an offer and the owner was gracious enough to let me take the Logan (along with the SB cabinet assembly) and send a check in the following week as I didn't have enough cash with me. I ended up parting the SB out, made a ton of money off the thing and paid for all of the Logan while managing to keep any interchangeable tooling (2 buck chucks, tons of tailstock chucks, steady rest, micrometer stop, etc, etc). That's pretty much where this story begins so ill let the photos do the rest of the talking.. Photos coming shortly
