South Bend's "How to run a lathe" (stabilised)

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Published 2012-07-09

If anyone has the original footage please let me know, it would be great to get it digitized properly.

This version is stabilised with YouTube's built in tool

All Comments (21)

@gristlepounder 3 years ago

I have one of these my Dad got in 1947. Still runs great to this day!
@pamtnman1515 4 years ago

Makes me love America even more. Thank you for posting this
@Hotbeefsamich 7 years ago

This classic film will never die! Nor will lathes until everything is eventually burned up!
@dw.7655 4 years ago

Nice to see a video from the archives of South Bend Lathe Works. Have to put this with our documentation of our 9 inch SBLW
@flatheadronsgarage7345 6 years ago

Thanks for sharing. Timeless and inspiring.
@mrhhj 7 years ago

I just bought a south bend from the late teens early 20's. this helped a lot because I didnt receive info just the machine.
@kevinpulver4027 10 months ago

Thank you for posting this! I've got a heavy ten south bend but I need to learn to thread with it
@KohalaIronWorksCase 9 years ago

This video, in spite of it's age...still applies...
@jeremyarnold1979 2 years ago

That's a beautiful lathe
@MatthewHolevinski 2 years ago

A machinist and his lathe is a terrifying force to be reckoned with. One of those early nuclear research reactors had a guy and a lathe supporting operations, and they apparently needed something like an Ion chamber, and he was like I had no idea what a plasma chamber was but once they showed me what it looked like I made em one and they were able to get the reactor built.
@thespiritof76.. 5 years ago

Back then a mechanist came to work in a tie! We could learn a lot from looking back
@JosephDAndrea0121 10 years ago

Would Love to have the original as well. Thanks for posting it.
@Jankyvision 10 years ago

I love watching old videos like this. Very informative. I also find it amusing to see that in 1941 safety glasses were of no concern in a trade where there is flying metal bits.
@patrickvedder2623 9 months ago

Thank you for this video. I just bought a SB 10L Heavy. This video answered a lot of questions I had.
@RustyInventions-wz6ir 4 months ago

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice video
@bluehornet6752 6 years ago

Love the guy oiling with that thumb-powered can. Look at how fast he can go! Of course the fact that no oil is actually coming out (because he isn't actually depressing the can bottom) tends to simplify matters too...lol.
@BH_tradie 3 months ago

I still got 1 was the first lathe I ever bought. ❤
@Jpetovic 6 years ago

Thank You!!!
@nevetslleksah 2 years ago

The lathe is said to be the only machine tool that can reproduce itself. That’s a ‘stretch’. Sure, there are a lot of round parts on a lathe, but how is a lathe used to produce the bed or the carriage, just to name two major parts that come to mind. These require milling and perhaps grinding.
@austinwagoncompany 11 years ago

I like this video, it has let me know how these work and what to look for on one I'm interested in. I run a cnc lathe at work but I've never ran one of these. We do have a DoAll lathe.