eBay lathe

Came across this on eBay, nice lathe for someone......however the unusual provenance in the description made me chuckle.....😁

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LOL, yep he certainly has one of a kind there.

Looks like a lovely old machine with a good pile of tooling with it. Never seen the likes of that little dividing head before.

how do you make a glass eye with a lathe?

Lovely find, not the sort of machine to appeal to my needs but only around 10 miles from me.

Love the shrouded chrome levered switch. Looks like a common light switch but the innards are seriously upgraded. Sort of nice detail you just don't see today. Hardly HSE friendly but nice.

Grinding wheel is um "worrying".

Lathe is actually a SouthBend 9" with another badge screwed over the proper one. Presumably the supplier as even the crudest passer offer would surely have removed the right badge first.

Clive.

With great care, no doubt. Maybe they were turned from plastic rather than glass? I don't see any obvious glass-eye holding jigs or turning tools so I guess only grandpa will ever know, and maybe Sammy Davis Jnr.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/07/21/eye.making.art/

....This very skilled lady eye maker uses a very nice little lathe...

"how do you make a glass eye with a lathe?"

Just turn it

I'm sure Sammy Davis Jr would have been glad to see it.

Anyway as others have said it is a South Bend 9" lathe, re-badged by a dealer of some kind. For 150 UK pounds it would be a bargain, with all the shown tooling. I especially like the two micrometer stops. The dividing head ins interesting. These machines are built well and even if abused in previous lives will make good work. Lots of good spares and some new repro parts in the USA for these machines.

I'd get rid of the grinding wheel , myself... JD

Interesting to see micrometer carriage stops both sides of the saddle.