Indian Tadpole

[indian22]

Steve, regarding my Logan lathe serial # 6510H purchased used in 2004.
My winning in house bid was $875.01 USD delivered.
You if you really want, South of the border many hobby or lightly used Logans and Southbends exist.

Tom that's the ticket a good Logan at under $1,000. in this day when compared to what the same dollars will purchase in China, no relevant comparison! Though I consider the Southbend another step up from the Logan marque in the larger lathes, either one is a great choice.

I have a friend that lives three blocks from me that has a pristine Southbend in a 36" bed length that I've requested first shot at if ever it comes available, though larger than I perhaps require it's proximity & the owners very knowledgeable setup, operation and maintenance make it extremely appealing...definitely not a tabletop unit. He's had the for close to forty years and it's infrequent use only for home and hobby applications.

Fortunately the hobby we've chosen doesn't really require super tight tolerances for the most part, so basically any lathes a good lathe and we should take what we can get or do without one, though they do come in handy as do the mills.

Rick C.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Hey Rick,
Bench/Cabinet South Bend's are my youth, along with their big long bed models.
Hardinge for fussy stuff. But give me a Leblond 15"x54" including a turret tail stock.
Leblond's have replaceable bed ways so they will last forever.
I have looked periodically for a turret tailstock for the Logan. Use it as a bar feed stop, index to drill at feed rates a center tailstock can't compete, and gundrilling.
Tom from Rubicon

 

[Ludwig II]

This might not be applicable, but in the UK, sometimes colleges and the like have uprades, or training sections are shut down, and well maintained and low hours equipment is sold off cheaply at auction or even to the first person to turn up with money in their hand. I know a few people who landed on bargains by keeping an eye open.

 

[fasteddy]

Still here complete with a badly messed up back but I did get to see something I haven't seen in quite a while. The garage floor and peeks at the top of the work bench.

It's enough to warm the cockles of your heart and keep an old fella going.

Steve.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Damn man! Poor time to get reckless, and glad your sense of irony is still in you.
Get well as best you can Steve.
Tom from Rubicon

 

[indian22]

What Tom said, Steve. I'm feeling pretty good and still not accomplishing much with no plausible excuses, Tomorrow I'm organizing parts and tools in order to find the things I think I have, and now need before ordering more.

Rick C.

 

[fasteddy]

Had a feeling that the wheels had come off the wagon the other morning when I woke up and moved my legs and they didn't. The pain hit milliseconds after that discovery.

Still hurts but at least I can move around. I'm beginning to think that old age isn't a journey but a never ending test.

Steve.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Are you back on your feet? Or am I just wishing?
Hang tough Brother.
Tom from Rubicon

 

[fasteddy]

I'm up and moving around Tom. Discovered the hard way years ago that if you can get up and go, you should. There is a reaction to inaction and that is that you tend to seize up if your muscles and tendons aren't constantly moving after an injury or an operation. Once that happens you can't get the motion back.

Slowly getting better everyday. Don't know what caused my back to get this bad. Nothing of any great weight was lifted and not a lot of bending was done. Just one of life's mysteries I guess.

Steve.

 

[Ludwig II]

I annoyed one small muscle a couple of years ago, and the entire back went into spasm to protect it. Two weeks of walking with sticks, a bit later had a physio prod and bang it all. That itself was an, err, experience. It really doesn't take much to stop you dead.

 

[fasteddy]

Exactly what I have Ludwig. One muscle triggering my whole back. Getting less and less as time passes.

Steve.

 

[curtisfox]

Not fun , know how it feals, get better ........Curt

 

[Mr.B.]

Hang in there Brother!



On a lighter note, i came across this old

image and I thought of you...

 

[indian22]

Steve & Silver bear. That's a beautiful little canoe rig!

Rick C.

 

[fasteddy]

Thanks Mr.B,

There's been a little improvement but when it hits the pain takes your breath away.

The bike and the sidecar are a welcome sight. The first thing I thought was how hard would it be to make the sidecar. I like the way the undercarriage for the sidecar is made as well. I keep hoping there is one more left in the old fella.

Steve.

 

[fasteddy]

That is a little jewel, Rick.

Steve.

 

[indian22]

That is a little jewel, Rick.

Steve.

The canoes shape and small size work well, while maintaining good proportions with the rig and that is not the norm for these early sidecars. Many seem to have been designed as overly large utilitarian containers for human cargo, but I'm being rather harsh...

Rick C.

 

[fasteddy]

Rick,
So many of the sidecars are made without an eye as to the visual lines of them. As you put it so well, an overly large utilitarian container for human cargo.

This sidecar was built with a sense of beauty about it.

Steve.

 

[fasteddy]

Back is finally healing it's self with as much encouragement as possible from me. I did commit the cardinal sin of feeling great and going down to the garage and finding out in about 15 minutes I was wrong.

There is something unbecoming about crawling up stairs on your hands and knees, whimpering.

Hope in a couple of days I'll be back at it.

Steve.

 

[fasteddy]

If you have happened onto this thread and found more conversation than building it's because of my health problems and this thread is much like having your garage door open on a sunny summers day and all your friends stop by. More talk than work happens.
There are photos and explanations of what was done though.

This is the first photo from Facebook that I saw and said to myself I can build that. I thought I'd lost it.

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Followed by this one a few days later

https://motorbicycling.com/attachments/screenshot208-jpg.31557/

Then it was hold my hat, I'm off.

Steve.