Heavy 10 project

Re: Where to get a Heavy 10 Thrust Bearing.

radial1951 said:
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Greg, Your SB H10 is VERY nice. I know exactly how much work you have put into it. I did the same thing to mine in 1975, when I was a bit younger! Seeing your photos is like going back in time. After 37 years, mine could do with a bit of polish now, but it has stood up pretty well. The spindle bearings have never needed touching. Except the ball thrust bearing is no longer perfect. Because the balls and/or races are worn, the spindle floats a few tenths of a thous, in an apparently irregular fashion, as it rotates.

Have you, or any other forum members, been able to source a replacement ball thrust bearing? These early H10 lathes have been around quite a while now, and there must be many of them soon to encounter a similar problem, if they haven't already.

Again, well done on your rebuild. Here's a photo of my 1947 Heavy 10, still nice to use after all these years. You will really enjoy yours, especially as you know it inside-out.

Regards, RossG.
radial1951
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Ross, what a great looking lathe! This whole obsession with the restore all started as a suggestion of many members here to check the wicks. I'm glad I took their advice as they where hard and packed with crud. But it seems as I have this problem with not being able to do things so so, I was just going to clean it and rewick it and use it, well you can see how far I got with that. LOL I am glad I have done this restore as it has tought me everything about the machine and it has been a fun project that I can't wait to use! I think it's as close to a new south bend as I can get. I am going to use it as it was meant to be. I still have some work to do yet, and I am working on the tail stock currently. As far as the take up thrust bearing goes, I got lucky and my originals where in good shape and I used them in the used head stock. I have .001 of end play and she spins easy by hand. The used one was missing a ball also. I think this has come up in discussion here before but I can't remember where?
 
woodtickgreg said:
Here's a few pics of some spindle parts before cleaning. The new used spindle bearing shows signs of being run low on oil or without proper bearing clearance, it has some wear but no major galling, I think it will clean up ok. These are the 2 spindles, the top one is the original and the one I will use, it is in a little better shape even though both are good. 2 sets of take up bearings, the original is in great shape, I wonder where the ball went from the other one! LOL The cone pully from the original will also be used, someone did a half a$$ cleanup on the bronze bearing, I'll fix that, It does fit nicely. I did get to wash everything for the spindle in the parts washer since I took the pics, the bearing and all the parts cleaned up well.
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You have done a most outstanding referb job......awesome. One thing..have you decided on what kind of leather belts you plan on using?

Again..fantastic refab work....get a nice 3/4 tooth chuck and you're in....

Rob
 
rwiederrich said:
You have done a most outstanding referb job......awesome. One thing..have you decided on what kind of leather belts you plan on using?

Again..fantastic refab work....get a nice 3/4 tooth chuck and you're in....

Rob
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I Plan to do a serpentine belt conversion, a automotive rib belt wont slip, stretch, or need much maintenance at all and will run quiet too.
 
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Nice work. Congrats.
Did you get the part for the oil filler?
Latheman may have some, I got 2 from him, and BlueChipMachine, too.

Ken in NC
 
snwcmpr said:
Nice work. Congrats.
Did you get the part for the oil filler?
Latheman may have some, I got 2 from him, and BlueChipMachine, too.

Ken in NC
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Thanks for the info, no I haven't even looked yet, been very busy this week and haven't had much time to work on the lathe.
 
They also carry Gits oilers at McMaster. I see them on EBay and Ted used to have them.
 
woodtickgreg said:
If you look on page 2 post no. 45 of this thread you will see what a card looks like, it contains a lot of useful info on it, when it was made and shipped, who it was sold to, components that where used etc. You can order a pdf file copy of a serial card from grizzly, I think it cost $yhttp://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?id=229440&part=1&auth=co&disp=II hope these picture come thru?
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JeremySCook said:
I have what looks like the exact same lathe as yours. Didn't even know that it was called a "SB 10 Heavy" as it was given to me. Here's some photos etc: http://www.jcopro.net/2012/11/04/new-to-me-south-bend-lathe/ Mine's probably in close to the same state that you had yours originally, really impressive you took it to the point it is now!
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Looked at your pics, pretty cool! You got way more tooling than I did, I got nuthin, you got a chuck, a taper atachment, and it looks like a drill chuck or live center in the tailstock. Oh and your price was way better than mine too! Congratulations on your new old lathe.
 
Thanks! Yeah it was pretty much functional, and yeah the price was right. Only thing I had to do (so far) was swap out the motor for a 120vac model, and replace the belt. I tried a serpentine belt to begin with, but eventually ended up using a link belt - http://www.jcopro.net/2012/11/25/how-to-replace-your-antique-lathe-belt-and-several-ways-not-to/.

I know some guys have gotten the serpentine belt to work, but given the relative price similarity, I've been quite happy with the link belt so far. Now I "just" have to figure out how to get it to reverse, and get the cross-slide so it's not sloppy.
 
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