Used lathe

[akajun]

Mine came from E-bay, usually several to choose from. I bought a SB H10 48" bed. The owner would not ship "widower" so me and my short bed Z-71 took off with portable engine hoist. I have looked at H10`s and never seen another like I found. It has 6 drawers under the chip pan.

Like this one? I hadn't seen another like it when I picked this one up. I also took an engine hoist with me to load the lathe and the engine.

Topstrap

I have that exact lathe and cabinet that I am slowly rebuilding . Yours is the only other cabinet like that I have seen.

 

[Caleb85]

Hook up with a SKILLED machinist or toolmaker, take some classes at a community college or other available venue, lacking that Tubal Cain videos are pretty good. http://neme-s.org/Tubalcain/machine_shop_tips.htm

Like any other trade, bad habits learned early on are hard to break and will smite thee forever. In nine years of teaching machine shop, my worst and basically untrainable students were those that had basement shops and learned from other home shop amateurs. There's a reason a machinist apprenticeship is 8000 hours and after that the real learning starts. GO SLOW and do PRECISION work. Half *** work will bite thee in the same place. ;D Good luck with your new adventure.
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+1!!!! I am trying to learn a few things from my smith! And my cousin has a old Sears lathe in there farm shop that I try to get to every morning befor I go to work just to play around on. I chucked up a piece of round stock to try for a crown.

 

[savagedasher]

That orange thing in my lathe picture is a 409. It's a low mileage original 1962 409 hp dual quad QB engine. The guy I got it from was running a single four barrel intake and manifold from a 400 hp engine but gave me the original dual quad intake with it. Didn't have the correct valve covers but did find a correct set of silver drippers on the 348/409 site.

It's for a 1962 Impala I'm restoring, it originally was a 300hp 327 but I'm accumulating correct parts to reassemble it as a 409 4sp car. The motor was built in April and my car in May so it's about as close as I'd ever find to match.

Topstrap

Is it a QB block ? Larry

Yup, Towanda 1962 April 6th QB block.

Topstrap

Is it a 587 or L-80 dual quad?

I raced them in supper stock and Factory experimental classes. Un touched you should have double head gaskets. Limited production cars the same engine but with cam and other changes Nascar required a number amount to be produced to let that engine be us in nascar 50% had a single 4 bbl What that letter suffix
was I cant remember but your is a standard production. You have a great piece of history. Larry