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Newbie from Vancouver Island

Hello there from Kelowna! There's a wealth of knowledge here...And a lot of the regulars are pretty solid for helping out.
 
Thanks and a bit of an update.
After looking into the parts missing on my Craftsman, I found a nice Southbend 9A on mp that I bought. It’s an older, I am guessing 40-50’s lathe. It has a broken handle above the gear box but otherwise looks good and comes with lots of tooling. I will probably sell the Craftsman and try and recoup my cost.
 

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Brought it home this afternoon and was a lot heavier than I anticipated. Now to assemble and learn how it works. Serial number indicates that it was manufactured in 1942.
 

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Looks good! Hopefully it will be good lathe to learn on and give you many years of service. You will likely find that you end up wanting another/a different one as your needs grow. When you don't have a lathe you wonder what you would do with one. When you have a lathe you wonder how you ever got along without one.
 
Tomc938 said:
Looks good! Hopefully it will be good lathe to learn on and give you many years of service. You will likely find that you end up wanting another/a different one as your needs grow. When you don't have a lathe you wonder what you would do with one. When you have a lathe you wonder how you ever got along without one.
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And the milling machine... and the welder... and the metal bandsaw... and the foundry... and the sheet metal tooling...
 
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