South Bend lathe, Vancouver

[garball]

South Bend 9" long bed lathe, complete. - tools - by owner

This is a rare, special order, 48" long bed South Bend lathe with a Hercus gear box. The lathe has been stripped down and completely rebuilt. All ways are in excellent condition, you can still see...

vancouver.craigslist.org

 

[YYCHM]

South Bend 9" long bed lathe, complete. - $3,200 (Port Moody)​

 

[curmudgeon]

I contacted the seller a couple days ago asking if it could be seen running. His response,

It’s setup as in the photos. Motor can be run but not attached to the lathe as that will require a cabinet/table.

I see that the listing is now marked as SOLD - good luck if someone here bought it

 

[Dabbler]

If one of us did, I hope they did a thorough check. Any repaint lathe has to be suspect. Pricey even with the tooling.

 

[140mower]

That was a pretty well equipped lathe. Those accessories add up pretty quickly when you are hunting for them one at a time.

 

[Dabbler]

We sold Bert's SB9A for 1700$, better equipped, with taper attachment, mounted on the table, well cared for, all in at 1700$. Things have gone up since then, but I'm not sure they've gone up that much...

His was listed on this forum for 5 months before someone bit. Whoever bought it seems not to be a forum member, I had some additional serial matched stuff for it, and was going to give it to them. No one answered. I eventually sold the milling adapter (serial matched) to DavidR8, and gave the rest away.

 

[DavidR8]

The follow rest is pretty much unobtanium these days.

 

[DavidR8]

The west coast market is completely different...

 

[140mower]

If one of us did, I hope they did a thorough check. Any repaint lathe has to be suspect. Pricey even with the tooling.

It looks like they converted a "B" into an "A" by using a hercus gear box. I am not a big fan of repaints either, but as these lathes get older, very few "princesses" seem to show up and are crazy expensive when they do. Parts are easy to source as long as the bed is decent. I think I have enough spare parts here to keep a few running for another 100 years or so.

 

[curmudgeon]

This Princess SB 9A from The University of Victoria's machine shop went for $5,450 on the BC Auction site in January. http://www.bcauction.ca/open.dll/submitLogin?language=En&disID=8156804

I'm not sure that the 9B with Hercus gearbox in Port Moody was every fully assembled and run after the repaint - too risky for me....

 

[YotaBota]

I think you were wise.