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Glad to see a new member on the forum from SLC.

Looks like a nice engine, looked up a photo of the mill engine Elmer's #33, a good project for your South Bend

greentwin , That engine in your photos that is painted white, would be a good price at $600, if you would be able to pick it up somehow.??

Very nice, you are lucky to find that one..

looking good....

Your a very good machinist, the 5A is a nice size engine. Well done.

I do have the castings for the reversing mechanism, I have got to see if I have the drawings.

Very nice job, I am working my reversing gear so will be interesting to see how you are doing yours.

Look at youtube there are bad reviews on the Vevor lathe, it's not worth your hard earned money...

I take Gabapentin for my nerve pain. I am 81, and yes it is hard to pick up small parts.

Very impressive work..

Getting a new lathe or mill is always exciting and fun, thanks for posting.

Well what ever make it is, it looks well made and heavy, and looks like you have all the gears and parts.

Peatrich, you being from the UK should have lots of castings and plans for steam engines over there. Welcome.

{It not same lathe as old south bend.} Yes I know, I am pretty sure they were made In Taiwan. I saw one of Grizzlys gun smith lathes, a 14 inch at a trade show, also made in Taiwan it was a very impressive lathe.

I remember when Grizzly brought out that South Bend 8K lathe and the price, there was a lot of talk on the South Bend forum, like was said sales were slow because of the price.

I have been to the bird city engine show, very nice, welcome.

All are steam lines and return pipes are insulated as are the traps, each device has its own steam trap and return line, This is at a large hotel with large laundry and kitchen, you can imagine how many stream traps and piping we need to service..

Boilers..At work the hot water is returned back after the steam traps, to heat the makeup water, witch is pumped back into the boiler, the steam traps are serviced all the time and the return water eats the black pipe after time , it is a maintenance headache.. Ritchard, we are saving as much...

As you know the Myford lathe uses oil not grease, when I first got it, every zerk was full of grease, it had the drip feed oilers on it so the last owner knew not to put grease on the bearings...