Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Usually I don't do this, but I guess we are at the "if you show me yours, I'll show you mine" stage.

First, the queen of the shop.

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It's the Office of Steam favorite, a South Bend lathe.  Specifically a 1974 South Bend 10K, aka the Light Ten, in the UMD configuration (Under Mount Drive) with factory cabinet. It's very similar to the 9A that others have shown as it has the same bed, just a few casting differences to account for the larger swing.  Also a different spindle and a few other minor changes. This one has a hardened bed, which was unusual for SB's smaller lathes. Along with a complete re-wicking, I also installed a VFD for better speed control.

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Close-up of the T-Slot cross slide that was machined last year with the great help of Paula's guide. The red things are 3D printed T-Slot inserts to try and keep the shite out.

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Technically my first piece of metal shop equipment, an import drill press. Nothing special, but it has 3 pulley rows for the lower speeds you need for drilling metal and a hand crank table lift which is just nice. These features are hard to find on older, smallish domestic drill presses.

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This is the vertical mill, a Grizzly G0678, which I bought directly from the Muncy, PA store the last week they were open. Major improvements were a power feed and 3 axis DRO.  I don't have room for a Bridgy and it's difficult to find the older domestic medium-sized knee mills so I'm glad I bought this when I did. It now costs almost 3X what I paid for it 9 years ago. Somehow my paycheck has NOT inflated at nearly the same rate!

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Old Craftsman grinder my dad bought back in the seventies.  It's on a stand and I roll it to the door for the rare heavy grinding session.  Kalamazoo 1x42 sander which is great for cleaning-up after saw cuts. A cheap slow-speed import grinder which works fantastically for de-burring with two Scotch-brite wheels.

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Workbench area with an old Wilton bullet vise and a tiny Dake arbor press on the side and lots of fastener storage.

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Main workbench area. Since I've started building a model engine, the surface plate (Chinese tombstone) is deployed where it is usually parked in it's garage under the stereo.

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Shop radio for streaming audio plus various power supplies. Tiny Cameron drill press beside the receiver.

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Main fine-work building area surrounded by toolboxes with machinist and smaller tools. I bought the Gerstner box on the left from the original owner who was a retired Tool & Die machinist. Not sure of all the different places he worked, but not only was smoking permitted but it must have been strongly encouraged! For a year or so every time you opened a drawer you could smell stale ciggys.  Anyway, it finally drew out and it's a great box.

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Mill tooling and various other storage. The stand on the right I fabricated from square tubing to hold a bunch of those Harbor Freight organizers. Wish I had room for another one.

Not shown is Big Orange the 20T arbor press and a ubiquitous 4x6 drop saw.

Pretty much 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.