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[RICH MUISE]

Looks great Joe. I would have guessed older than '65. My first venture in machine shop was 1965 and your lathe looks older than what I remember being in that first shop.

[CobraJoe]

Thanks Rich, it is a 1950; I jokingly was saying the grey paint made it look newer, lol.

[hiball3985]

That SouthBend looks great. I learned on one of those in high school machine shop, we had five and one Logan. I loved it..

[rmk57]

 I bought this one about 2 years ago. It's around 1966-67 era South Bend 10L. Price was right and it's in fantastic shape for being a VSB (Vancouver school board) lathe.

[CobraJoe]

[lalessi1]

Great pic! I have missed them. Thanks!!!

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[CobraJoe]

Rip, a rescue dog who found one hundred victims of air raids in London between 1940 and 1941. He received the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945.

[RICH MUISE]

Now that's a HD mill! I've not seen one that I remember. It looks like it could be set up for horizontal or vertical use. Hell of a setup with that dividing head......back in the old days before programmable dividing heads. Lots of calculations involved. I wrote a program that utilized an indexing head for a Pratt & Whitney N/C once. The pneumatic indexing head only power indexed every 5 degrees, so we made a plate/fixture that manually indexed in 1-degree increments. The program would stop and the readout would instruct the operator on which detent the added plate on the indexing head should be in for the next operation.

[CobraJoe]

[FiveSevenLiter]

Found this 40 in a 1948 Popular Mechanics.  Love these old ads.

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