3800 Pound South Bend 17" Turn-Nado Lathe Project

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3800 Pound South Bend 17\" Turn-Nado Lathe Project

Figured you guys that love to play with machinery would get as much of a kick watching this project as I'm having actually doing the dirty work.

This is a 3800 Pound South Bend 17" Turn-Nado Lathe that came to me by the way of eBay. There were 4 identical lathes that came out of a school in the Cleveland, Ohio School District. The fellow that bought all 4 decided to keep one for himself and I got pick of the litter otherwise.

I borrowed a heavy duty trailer, called a TBN friend of mine that has a new Dodge diesel truck and asked him if he wanted to break the diesel in the right way, "By putting it to work."

Anyway this series will cover the lathe being taken down to the bare bed, stripped, inspected for any defective parts like bearings, primed, painted, and then finally reassembled.

The first picture shows the lathe at my place and us scratching our heads, trying to decide how to get the 3800 pound monster off the trailer. It was loaded in Cleveland using a tow-motor which was no sweat, but the loader on my TC-40D will only handle 2000 pounds at best. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Yeah, I know we go full steam ahead, then figure out later how where gonna get er done.....

 

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Well the best plan that we had was to borrow a TN-70D from TBN member JASTN70D (John), put my pallet forks on his QA and see if we could coax the monster off the truck.

Well the first lift was made using a 8' box blade for a counterweight and it didn't go so well. I mean the TN had plenty of guts to get the job done but we lacked weight on the rear, so the back wheels came up off the ground. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

So I helped John put his BH on the TN, brought it back to the house, loaded my weight bracket in the bucket of the BH, crossed our fingers and easily made the lift. As soon as I got the lathe up off the trailer we thought it prudent rather than try to travel with that much weight in the air we quickly drove the trailer out from under the beast and I slowly lowered the load to the ground.

 

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Now lower, under control, and headed for its new home. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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Hello Houston, this is PineRidge, we now have touchdown.

 

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The headstock with the cover removed. Looks pretty nice on the initial inspection. The gears will come out later.

 

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Here's the quick change gearbox with the cover removed. Looks pretty good here too.

 

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OK we're starting using a pin scaler on the bed. At 90psi air pressure this little tool just blasts the old paint (3 coats), rust, and scale off. Look at the comparison shot of the cell that half done.

 

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Let's race ahead to a completely stripped, primed, and now painted Confederate, gray-blue paint job on the bed. I do still have a bit of paint that needs to be gently cleaned off the hardened ways.

 

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Then turned my attention to lots of prep work on the two bases. Sanding, priming bare metal and lots of sandpaper.

 

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Bases looking a lot better and almost ready for paint.