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OK. Your machine has the correct legs for a 10F.
What is the serial number (should be stamped into the top of the front way, near the right end of the bed, in the area not touched by either tailstock or carriage).
It is a 10F. It has babbit bearings. The bed length appears to be 36". And it has a vertical countershaft. So its model number would be V36.
The 3-jaw chuck is a 6". Be careful that you never run the chuck jaws out any further than they are in the photo or they will hit the bed, damaging the jaw, chuck and bed.
I can't see the front of the headstock because of where the PO mounted the barrel switch. There is something there that if it were visible would ID the machine as earlier or later than about mid-1942. A safer place for the switch is under the floor stand, about even with the front of the chuck, with the operating lever on the front and pointed to the left and about 2" back from the front edge of the pan. ON/FWD should be up and ON/REV should be down. In this position it is protected from accidental operation and from swarf and oil. And readily accessible by either hand. The switch operating lever would need to be rotated 90 deg CW.
OK. Your machine has the correct legs for a 10F.
What is the serial number (should be stamped into the top of the front way, near the right end of the bed, in the area not touched by either tailstock or carriage).
It is a 10F. It has babbit bearings. The bed length appears to be 36". And it has a vertical countershaft. So its model number would be V36.
The 3-jaw chuck is a 6". Be careful that you never run the chuck jaws out any further than they are in the photo or they will hit the bed, damaging the jaw, chuck and bed.
I can't see the front of the headstock because of where the PO mounted the barrel switch. There is something there that if it were visible would ID the machine as earlier or later than about mid-1942. A safer place for the switch is under the floor stand, about even with the front of the chuck, with the operating lever on the front and pointed to the left and about 2" back from the front edge of the pan. ON/FWD should be up and ON/REV should be down. In this position it is protected from accidental operation and from swarf and oil. And readily accessible by either hand. The switch operating lever would need to be rotated 90 deg CW.