Technical turning plastic bushings

Bought mine little over 10 years ago and still haven't even plugged it yet.... I only paid $369.00 for it and it's almost doubled in price since then...
The one I have is the 7"x 10" pictured up top from harber freight....

 

They are a hobbyist lathe. A lot of model makers use them. Mine is 6x18.

 

South Bend 9?

 

yup. 1946 vintage.

 

Really need to find a lathe.. Mill wouldnt hurt either

 

How about a 1/14 scale Bridgeport.....
Pretty neat huh????

 

i think telling someone who is building one car, he needs a lathe, is a little much. i built dozens of cars with little need for a lathe, and when we needed one a machine shop did it for a fraction of the cost of buying and maintaining one, not to mention the real estate it takes up. that said i own one now, an old Atlas that was given to me that i fixed up. it has added another solution to the problem of putting things together, from just finding a part to fit to MAKING a part fit. if i was more experienced with it it would also include making a part. they are good to have, but lower on the list of "need to have".

 

We used to make urethane body mounts for Chevrolet police cars before they became commercially available . we bought it in round bars like aluminum comes in.
A lathe works great. Police pursuit training is very hard on body mounts and the box Caprice cars get a weird front end shake when the body shifts on the frame in a high speed turn under braking. That was a tough problem to figure out when it first started happening.

 

Better take a closer look; the outer steel sleeve from the original shackle bushing is probably still in the hole. The eyes on all '35-'48 Ford wishbones are 3/4"; like 36-3w posted.

 

1947 South Bend 13" x 60". With tools, steady rests, collets, face plates, etc. Picture was taken when I got it and was installing it about 15-years ago. I use it almost daily and can't imagine not having it. I've turned a lot of plastic / nylon, aluminum, as well as steel bushings with it,
SBL3 by TagMan, on Flickr

 

Figure out why the sizes are so far off.

 

Lots of schools got those South Bend lathes from the government after WWII. The local tech school had 12 of them as did the high schools. I used to take a night course just to use the machines. Then I didn't even have to take the cl*** as the instructors would let me use the machines and I would help some of the students. About 10 years ago, they s****ped all of the lathes. Many people wanted to buy them but it seems that they were still technically owned by the government and they couldn't be sold.

I heard that after the older instructors retired, the new instructors wanted all CNC machines. They claimed that the old lathes were worn out. One of the former instructors told them that they could machine anything they needed except bearing which were readily available. The older instructors always had students start out on the old lathes making several projects before moving on to the CNC machines. Now they're having problem placing graduates at local machine shops because basically all they are trained to do is put pieces into CNC machines. The 4 machine shops we dealt with the most couldn't find machinists. All of theirs were over 50.

 

I always had access to a Monarch 10EE tool room lathe at work. After I retired I went through a couple of Atlas lathes at home, but I wasn’t satisfied until I got a 10EE of my own for my shop. Sweet machines.

 

I wonder who got the money for s****?

 

Where are you located in WM?
I'm in Muskegon, (well I'm eating at Culver's in GrandHaven, at the moment, but I digress) I'm a CNC programmer, at a small shop, and can do anything you need (no charge), if you decide they need to be machined.
Feel free to PM me.

 

That right there is why I love the H.A.M.B.

 

It looks like there might have been a sleeve still in there. I drilled it out but it didn't drill out like a steel sleeve

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I have a mini-lathe (7 X 14) and haven't run into anything that was too big YET. I spent a lot of time looking and comparing before I purchased it and it's been really handy and I like it a lot. The main problem with mini-lathes is that they make you want a big one.

 

Probably drilled out the compressed rubber kinda stuff that is in between the stud and outer sleeve.
Seriously ALL the eyes are 3/4"; if your's is still smaller, something is still in there.

 

The problem with a lathe after you have one for a while and figure how to make it work you realize that what you need is a mill. You find one of those and make room in the garage find out that you will need 3 phase power get that all sorted out. Then there is this deal on a cnc plasma table ect. ect. , soon nothing is happening on the car that started it all.

 

Can that sleeve be pressed out with a C clamp and a 5/8 er an 11/16" socket????

 

Been fortunate enough to collect some machine tools most from Craigslist and neighbors. It's invaluable working on old cars but you can ruin something real quick, ask me how I know. =[

 

Nice tool room. Bones

 

I've used a hacksaw to cut a slit or two in the sleeve. It doesn't have to be cut all the way through. Just enough to weaken it.

 

Yeah, I wish my garage looked that organized....

 

It's not like that now, that is when it was first built. Oil on the wall, chips everywhere I like the way it smells. =]

 

I stepped it up to 3/4" last night got a little worried when I saw a small hairline crack not sure if it was a heat check or not

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better post some pictures now

don't think i'd drill it out with a 3/4" drill bit , i always did it as engine man suggested

 

Here's a pic

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Looked at it closer almost looks like that sleeve drilled out almost nothing

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