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[MeyerFittings]

Anyone near Portland need a real lathe?  9inch turn, 36inch bed. South Bend machinist lathe. Perfect shape, with lots of chucks and tooling. Once owned by Boyd Poulson and Macy from Macy's dept. store 

[Don Noon]

Wow... just like the one I had for a few decades until I got tired of the oil stripes on the wall (and shirt and glasses) from those cone bearings, and downgraded to a 9" Chinese lathe.  I suppose I could have made a shield of some sort, but the bed on mine was badly worn.

[MeyerFittings]

You mean Timpken (sp.) bearings? Boyd never mentioned oil leaks and I used this lathe at his shop for several weeks and never noticed thm either. I drove 500 miles to pick up this machie and carry it up a huge hill because it was so beautifully made and pristine.  I've got two Atlas lathes with Timken bearings that i use every day and never had this problem. It's nice to see that the Chinese have come so far in their engineering. I must have missed the ascendancy.   

 

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[Don Noon]

Maybe they came with different bearing types.  Mine had plain (not roller or ball) bearings that needed oil to function.  Put oil in the top caps, and it gradually leaks out and slings somewhere.  Or maybe my machine was missing some seals or shields.  In any case, the bed was too worn to turn anything straight.

[MeyerFittings]

Maybe the worn bed can tell something about the oil seals. Anyway mine doesn't leak. You could make airplane parts with this. It's overkill for what I do. 

[fiddlecollector]

It would have cast iron or bronze plain  bearings i would have thought. Mine is a 9A  1963 with a gearbox though. Bought it off a retired toolmaker who imported it direct to the Uk from South bend. They do fling oil about if you lubricate them properly but usually from the counter shaft. I have another earlier one from 1942 which i haven`t got around to finishing restoring yet.