Had an elder Lady stop at my house and asked if I would come to her house and get a lathe that her husband bought 20 years ago sitting in the shop on a trailer with four flat tires he started taking apart and figures out that he could not probably put it back together, like a good neighbor I said yes and followed her to the shop, I was shocked to see this monster and ever attachment for the lathe on pallets, he said the lathe come from a gas compressor company that though a jack leg there could run it only for him to leave the key in the chuck and when he turned it on the key went though those old type big windows, the lathe was disconnected and set in the corner this was suppose to have happen in 1960, found a man that worked there and said it was as stated, I got the birth certificate if was produced it was sold 9/22/1955 to an individual, it is a 16" swing with 5" riser blocks, there is not wear on anything, will post pics of some progress, I would be neat to find some of the decedents of this man and show them it has a new life, this make my 10th. lathe,? I think I will soon have enough, the other South Bend in a 9" 1925
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