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Are you keeping your South Bend too?
I still have both 9" South Bend lathes, I have always thought that I would move on my plain old SB 9"(my 1st lathe) but I'm really fond of that lathe & it probably wouldn't bring much money anyway...no hurry. Needing the space would be the main reason to move it out. I'm replacing steam engine storage with machine allocation. I'm finding that modifying machinery is not much different than modify steam engines.(& I'm loving it 😊) I've been on the hunt for so long for certain items that I know I will miss that aspect of it, I'm still wanting a few more items (hydraulic lift table, d1-4 mount 5-C collet chuck) but no hurry on those, it was fun. I now need to start shifting my focus on learning how to use the machinery I now have.