Making Bronze Backlash Nuts on the South Bend Heavy 10 and Hardinge DSM59 

Well done. I have a South Bend 10 also- and bought a used turret for it that I'm trying to set up. Quickly found out about the cross slide getting in the way of the turret too. Thanks for showing this, it will help.

Good to see manual machines still have a place in a CNC world. Now your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to grind up some tools to do more than one job, something like a parting/facing tool than also cuts a chamfer. Every tool change saved reduces job time thus allowing extra coffee breaks, which can't be bad. 👍

great walkthrough! machine looks sweet.

Nice job Brad. Great looking parts. You had me thinking what I woulda done if in the same boat with just one lathe.....Had the Hardinge not been available I would chucked up some steel in a tailstock drill chuck (or collet) put a drill in the headstock collet and drilled & reamed the proper size hole to accept the drill size you needed for the job...then loctite it in place so it could be used to finish the rest of the parts as it woulda been true to the axis of the lathe at that point. But then again...a second lathe is a much better option 😊 ~ Richard

Thanks Brad, you know your stuff, great looking pieces even with the hold ups.

Thanks for sharing ... great video! Hope to see more. Oh and missed you at the Bar Z bash Saturday.

hello brad from the uk again

You may well know this Brad, look into getting some roller box tooling for your turret. You can set them up to repeat diameters very close tolerance and much faster. If you let your stock hang out a little farther and set your rollers right you can make up for a good bit of miss alignment on your turret.(in a pinch) glad to hear you already know how to fix your misalignment. Keep the videos coming!

Interesting job Brad. Good point re chip clearance etc.

Hi Brad nice work, I hope that was your mother-in law's tooth brush and not your own. regards bruce

of topic, could you tell me what 3 phase, HP motor for a south bend heavy 10 lathe please

If the tolerance is .002 that would be + or - .001 so that part was out. I know it's a half thou but that's important to know.

very good video, discussion/build

Brevity is the soul of wit. I try to watch Brad, but I lose interest. Keep it moving! I am interested!

Good video Sir.

I love your setup.

Glad you talked about the misalignments of your turret. I was looking into getting one for my lathe.

What is the flashing red light I can see in the background behind the tail of the lathe? Seems to be flashing a code?

Who’s that job for?

Getting it done! Machines are looking great too. :-)