New Project

I recently got my 1944 South Bend 9A Lathe back from the great white north. I will be forever grateful to my friend for bringing it home.
It sat in a garage with a leaky roof and it suffered for it. The rust isn't too bad though, the pulleys and half of the bed have some rust but the rest of the machine is good.
So this is now my current project because I get a great deal of enjoyment from using the lathe. It is very Zen.
I started working on the bench already. It is original to the lathe and is in good shape. The top is made of eighth inch steel and the cabinets are a bit thinner. I cleaned the rust off of the top and sprayed it with dark machine gray Rustoleum.
I'll post pic's later
There is not a lot going on with the bench so I'm not going to dwell on it.
When I get to the lathe I will take it apart in sections and make videos of the work. I have not found a good video of a teardown and reassembly of a SB9A on YouTube so I'm going to make one, or a couple. We'll see how it goes.
So, the lathe is a South Bend Model 9A. It has a quick change gear box and a horizontal drive. That means the motor and associated mechanicals sit behind the head. Other models have the drive in the base under the head and still others have the drive above the head. I think the over the top model I viewed was formally used in a factory with overhead belt drives.
Anyway, I picked the gem up in Brentwood, New Hampshire at an industrial consignment shop for $500 US. It's former home was a local high school. It has seen a lot of use but is not beat up too bad. The bed ways still have a little bit of the fish scaling left on it. The bearings are all buttery smooth and the motor, which is three phase, runs flawless. The bearings in this lathe are all just cast iron, no ball bearings at all. I'm going to replace all of the felts and broken oil cups. I replaced the main bearing felts a few years ago just so I knew they were getting oiled. I was using it a lot so I didn't want it to run dry. Now I have the time to do a proper rebuild.
Ok, more later.