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South Bend Lathe Works
South Bend, IN


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Serial Number: 15697 KAR
Machine Type: Lathe
Machine Description: 10K 3-1/2' bed
Owner: Stuart Harner
Manufacture Date: 1971
Notes: Source=Owner's submission. Owner's notes: This looks like what I see in my memory of sitting on my grandfather's lap at a very young age. I remember the two gear change handles and watching the belts and pulleys turn through the slots in the belt guards. He had a lantern tool post and I also remember watching him sharpen tool bits on the grinder. I was maybe 3 or 4 at the time. No one in the family knows exactly what he had except in his retirement he called it his "little lathe".
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