Can someone ID it for me?

[steveg]

Yep he installed all the goodies. Pic doesn't show them tho. Just got her installed and cleaning her up. She has been kept in really nice shape. Full set of collets but no draw bar or anything. just collets, 3 jaw and 4 jar chucks. excellent condition. Jaws are not all beat up so that's a plus. Steady rest. Neat little turret set up for the tail stock. Some chucks and live centers. Forget what brand quick change is on it but it looks to be decent quality and came with 5 or 6 holders. Need to find some good tooling now.
Everything is just in really nice condition.

[wlw-19958]

Hi There,

Looks like a good old single tumbler 'Heavy Ten.'
Somebody added those towel rack drawer pulls.
I've always liked the old SBL green-grey paint color.

Good Luck!
-Blue Chips-
Webb

[spro]

I always feel bad after posting behind WEBB, so I won't. ...well temptation Does not the single tumbler/top shift indicate this lathe pre 1951 ?
No confrontation, just that I dated my 9A to 1951 and it was dual tumblers.

[wlw-19958]

The 9 inch models (that is the 9N series, not the Heavy Nine) with quick change
gearboxes, i.e. the 9 inch Model A, came only with double
tumbler gearboxes.

Now the Heavy Nine, (the precursor to the Heavy Ten) came
only with the single tumbler type gearbox. It had a relatively
short life compared to the Heavy Ten (which replaced it) and
the 9 inch (9N) models. The Heavy Nine was made I think, only
during the 1930's (maybe as early as 1929 but I'm not sure).

The Heavy Ten came out in the late Thirties and for a time,
both the Heavy Nine and Heavy Ten were offered by SBL (I
think they stopped making the Nine inch version but had stock
on hand and sold them concurrently with the Ten until the stock
was used up).

I haven't seen a Heavy Nine in person for a long time. I believe
they had a different designed headstock (using the "box bearings"
with top oilers instead of the side oiling system (with wells and
wicks to communicate the oil up to the spindle bearings) In SBL
parlance, the "box bearing" design was split bronze bearings with
two halves like the main bearings in a motor.

Good Luck!
-Blue Chips-
Webb


Here's my 1924 SB 9". Single tumbler gear box. I've always been interested in the why's and when's SB switched to two tumbler boxes, but apparently they retained single level boxes on larger machines after they converted the 9" . So remain in the dark...

At some point this summer, I would like to start the clean up and restore this baby to service - it's been sitting in storage since the 1940's or so...

Glenn

[neanderman]

Nice looking lathe!