REVISITING MY DAD'S SOUTH BEND LATHE

[@Ed_Stoddard]

My father was a tool and die maker, graduating from college in 1932. I was born when he was 43 and grew up with modifications on everything around the garage. I still have many of his custom tools and cherish them as you do your fathers.

[@mrpete222]

😀👍

[@Mike-h5r4o]

Thanks for the idea! I think I will make an aluminum extension handle that slides over the end of the Chuck key. I will round both of the ends and drill out the ends two different sizes for different chuck keys. Got me motivated for today!

[@RRINTHESHOP]

I bet seeing the machines brought back some great memories. Thank you for sharing your family history with us. Merry Christmas.

[@dale1956ties]

Y'know Mr Pete...a lot of people would never be able to understand someone going out of their way to visit an old machine. But I get it. And I'm betting 99% of your viewers get it as well. Merry Christmas sir and thank you for sharing.

[@adnacraigo6590]

I get it.

[@kevinkoepke8311]

I know how sentimental you can be of your Dad's tools. I bought my Dad's house, and along with that, I have the 40 x 20 shop and garage full of his and my tools. Thanks, Mr Pete!

[@mrpete222]

That's awesome!

[@roddiesmith2167]

Sounds like you had great respect for your Dad. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[@mkegadgets4380]

A nice trip down memory lane. I look forward to your next video.

[@lroyson]

It's almost like those machines can talk with you, knowing and sharing the history of them. Thanks for sharing.

[@joecolanjr.8149]

Awesome...2 videos in 1 day!! Merry Xmas to me!! Lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Mr.Pete! You are a national treasure to all of us!! Take care.

[@garthbutton699]

Ahh, Sentimental journey I think you should buy or trade for it,thanks for the trip🤗😎🤗😎

[@allannoyes4560]

I wish I was a little closer to Lost Creek what a nice bunch of tools. I hope the next caretaker of your dads lathe appreciates its history.

[@mrpete222]

I hope so too!

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

Filling in the whole story of this tool’s history and every little modification, and by whom, adds an immense value to it. Who ever buys this will be doing so because of knowing its history, and association with the Peterson family. I love the story, its not just a survivor tool, it IS a story with such a human connection.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much for a great comment

[@ypaulbrown]

This was a very moving video, so glad you got to visit an old friend…my South Bend was originally the Ivory color…best wishes Lyle, Paul in Orlando

[@stevenpressley5956]

It is a wonderful machine. I am fortunate to have many of my Dad's tools, which I cherish dearly with the same sentimental value as you have for your father's tools. Thankfully most all of the viewers of this channel can relate 👍🇺🇲👊

[@mrpete222]

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[@BTimmer]

Thanks for sharing your dad's lathe. I have had for over 30 years a later model 9" SB with a quick change gearbox.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@adamchandler3162]

Thank you for sharing Mr Pete such great history

[@johncloar1692]

Thanks Mr. Pete for the video. Nice looking back.

[@fixitmakeit]

great old lathe, hope goes to good and caring owner. it has impeccable provenance .

[@deansamuelson4441]

Thanks fore sharing Mr. Pete

[@mikekorth1733]

Thanks Mr. Pete This video gives me insight into how people attached motors to there lathes. I have a 1914 south bend which I'm trying to get back to a more original state. Merry Christmas to you and your wife from Wisconsin!

[@MichaelMullarkey-ze4ri]

My father's Logan Lathe model 210 serial no 40719. Quietly waits to spring into action at flip of the switch. Thankyou Logan Accutator keeping us up and running. A very.nice compliment to my 1940 LeBlond Regal

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@davidt8438]

Thanks for the mini tour. It’s interesting because you’re an interesting guy.

[@glennking8206]

Thank you Mr Pete

[@ssboot5663]

"Long live" the memories of brother Jan and your Dad and family. Surely, they were special family members! You will meet again! Merry Christmas!

[@mrpete222]

I can’t wait to meet them in the air

[@peteengard9966]

Thanks for the ride. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@dale1956ties]

Oh COOL! A field trip down memory lane for 1st period. Thank you Mr. Pete and Merry Christmas!! Incidentally, my dad was a machinist at Eaton Dynamatics in Kenosha back in the '60s.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you.

[@Melw44]

Nice story. Thanks for sharing!

[@pyromedichd1]

Lots of good ole memories for you with those two lathes. I wonder of your grandson will have any interest in them when he gets older.

[@mrpete222]

I hope so!

[@lisacarden1309]

How cool is this! God Bless You and Thank You Guys for the field trip! Merry Christmas Mr.Pete🙏🏼❤️🎄❤️🙏🏼

[@LuckeyCan_It]

Golly, Mr. Pete! I even got emotional watching that! I had the opportunity 4 years ago to dismantle my great-uncle’s basement shop in Lombard. It had not been disturbed since 1982. I pretty much was teary eyed the whole time. I cherish every single drill bit, plans , tools and lathes that I took out of there!❤❤❤

[@mrpete222]

It sounds like you had a special experience. I bet that was a lot of fun, too!

[@LuckeyCan_It]

@@mrpete222 It was so amazing! I learned so much about him that I didn’t know from family stories. He was a technologist for the American Can company and had 5 patents to his name for John Glenn’s friendship 7 flight! I even found his prototypes for Glenn’s feeding tube.

[@speedmaverick]

It's so nice to see people who have a history that they can keep track of. I spent my life moving around the country so history is lost for me for the most part. I have to live it through others sharing, so thanks for that. It reminds me of my days in machine shop class in high school. I finally got my first lathe a couple years ago when I drove from WI to Rockford to pick it up. You remind us all that we are care takers of these pieces of history. My cousin Dave Hall has a drafting firm in Ottawa. I'm overdue for a trip to Streator & Ottawa to see the family. But the RV needs some attention before I can make the trip.

[@mrpete222]

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[@jonfranklin4583]

Thanks for sharing that Mr. Pete, I think that is the first time I have seen that particular drive system, really nice! And also thank you for letting us know about Lost Creek, fine folks to deal with and great pricing as well. Merry Christmas to you and yours Sir!!!

[@Oldsmob455]

Thanks to you and your vids my first lathe is a quick change South Bend 9" equipped with what I believe is the factory chip pan.

[@mrpete222]

Nice, you got a great lathe!

[@johnb5519]

The little Eisenhower reference, made me chuckle.

[@nogmeerjan]

Memories. Sweet memories. I do not get your memories but I do get the sentiment.

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Thanks for sharing Mrpete

[@duron700r]

I was the first and only mechanic and machinist in the family so this is fun to see and hear about the stories!

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@timeflysintheshop]

A great video Mr. Pete, but you neglected to tell us what it is selling for. Merry Christmas! 🎉🎉🎉

[@mrpete222]

He did not have it priced yet

[@timeflysintheshop]

@mrpete222 Well now that you made the video of it's his-story, it is priceless! If you could sell it "Pete-Bay" style, I bet it would sell for more$$$$! Maybe you could sell it for them via Pete-Bay and split the profit??? Just a thought.

[@ellieprice363]

What a great idea. Do it!

[@garychaiken808]

Great job. Thank you 😊

[@robertjospeh1097]

Great video!

[@Deg99]

Brings back memories for me as well. My Dad's Mom bought him a Southbend lathe in 1958?...I had for 30years after he passed and sold it for one with a quick change gearbox as well. Mine had the power feed and clutch in the saddle which worked extremely well. Thanks for the Southbend series, I do regret selling it.

[@mrpete222]

It sounds like you had a great lathe. I know that feeling of regret after selling something you really loved.

[@jaybailey3518]

Sentiment...a wonderful human weakness !!!

[@davidw.kennedy4904]

Glad to see your enjoyment. Tom and I had told Matt that we were friends and this was your dad's lathe. Told Matt the story of how Dad and I met you and carried the lathe out of your basement shop. As you know, a guy just can't keep everything. As much as I liked the lathe as I told you we got a ten inch SB with quick change gears. Remember the Trucut saws will fit on the SB undercutting. Good seeing the video. Hope to see you at an auction soon. Merry Christmas.

[@mrpete222]

Merry Christmas David. I was hoping you would see this video. I halfway wanted to buy it myself, but I have too many machines and I’m too old. Yes, I think I found a cutter in the.Trucut box that should work. Merry Christmas to you and Tom and your families.

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Some good memory's there...very nice

[@joerogi8401]

Thanks Mr Pete, kind of a shame it is unlikely to go to Henry, that would be quite a legacy machine. Going to watch may favourite Christmas classic A Particularly TOT Christmas, featuring LP, love it. Cheers and merry Christmas

[@mrpete222]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@MrShobar]

It's nice that you can follow your family's (former) property as it travels around the county. I received a legal library from my father. I remember his law books open on his desk while he was working, and I can still smell the tobacco residue from his nearby pipe smoking on them, and I can still see his margin notes written in pencil on the pages so that I also have reminders of his thinking. I know that waves of nostalgia can wash over a person through these material reminders of the past.

[@mrpete222]

Wow, great story great memories

[@tonyerwin9843]

Thank you very much.

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Great video Mr Pete, merry Christmas to you and yours..

[@mrpete222]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@Ray-r5j9u]

🖖. Merry Christmas to you and all you love Mr Pete!!

[@mrpete222]

Merry Christmas to you too

[@warrenlee3113]

Those guys at that shop are good guys. I have purchased some things from them.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@markstone6368]

My "basket case" South Bend 9a is a floor standing model just like your Dad's. It too has plates mounted to the bottom of the legs and pedestal. If I ever get his one running, I might have to make some of the brackets that your dad devised for his lathe. Won't need the ones for the chip pan, because this one has the original SB chip pan mounted between the floor standing legs and the lathe. MJ

[@mrpete222]

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[@monk4786]

Maybe you should take it for a ride !

[@disturbedmaynard3873]

It is almost like doing an autobiography of a beloved piece of machinery.

[@johnmortland1558]

That wood be a great starter machine for some young kid who was tired of video games

[@alfreimont1830]

Merry Christmas Mr Pete On another note, does anyone know of establishment similar to Lost Creek in the New England area? There used to Brothers Machine in N. Andover, MA but they are gone now.

[@RichieCat4223]

All I can say is, very nice video.

[@llapmsp]

What a wonderful story. I too have my dads tools that I would help him in the shop with. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

[@mrpete222]

Merry Christmas

[@nomercadies]

Another morning hello.

[@rogertaylor1589]

Come on Lyle, buy it back. You know the saying, "there's always room for one more". Have you ever done a video on the micrometer teaching aide production? I ordered both the Imperial and metric versions and they were in the classroom cabinet when i retired. As i recall, they were telescopic tubes and i am trying to think of what lathe work they wound require. Merry Christmas.

[@mrpete222]

No, Roger, Peterson products was long before KZbin. There is nothing left of my micrometer business. Merry Christmas.

[@davidpeterson5186]

Merry Christmas Mr. Pete, and a Happy New Year!

[@mrpete222]

Happy new year

[@danbreyfogle8486]

There is nothing wrong with being sentimental about that lathe. I am sure if you had more room you'd have that one in studio G as well. But taking a drive over to Lost Creek worked out and this was a good video Mr. Pete.

[@dougvanallen2212]

Mr Pete all I can say is that is really something that those two pieces are side by side again really something

[@goldprogoldpro7809]

I put the tailstock chuck key in the dauber hole on my little logan. thanks for those ideas on the chuck holders, etc.

[@mowermanone1621]

Very nice, thank you.

[@donniee1934]

Thanks for the "history" lesson.😁

[@randylahey2242]

love you pete, may allah grant you a merry Christmas

[@deangdmppajj4692]

I have the bench top version of this lathe but over here in the UK its really hard to find parts

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@ericnolan6877]

How come you don't bring it back home?

[@mrpete222]

Because I already have a six lathes

[@JamesP_TheShedShop]

Two Mr. Pete videos, it's Christmas. 👍🏻Right on

[@mrpete222]

Enjoy!

[@johnkraus728]

Your dad must have painted my LeBlond. it's the same colors!

[@mrpete222]

Lol

[@chrisburbank6484]

You mentioned making micrometers for pederson products, I was wondering if you had done a video on it or talk a little more about it?

[@mrpete222]

Yes, I have several videos on that. Search Tubalcain Peterson products.

[@mrfarmall-vk4gw]

I hope those 2 get reunited at mr.pete's👍👍

[@Duckfarmer27]

Lyle - Some good history there.

[@mikekrening7327]

Show us your Peterson products micrometer. Interested in other things you might have marketed as well!

[@mrpete222]

There are many many of my old videos covering that

[@willostiguy1213]

Another video this morning, hopefully I don’t make myself late for church 😁

[@Ervan-l9v]

You should record this video on a some digital media to be presented to the new owner so they can appreciate the history of this machine.

[@feathers352]

Is this the ultimate family heirloom to pass onto the grandson?

[@mrpete222]

I guess it is

[@dankotos61]

I would like to have that machine

[@ogaugeclockwork4407]

You should buy it back!!!

[@EvanLightner304]

So when are you taking it home?

[@UncleKennysPlace]

My brother gave me dad's tiny Craftsman lathe, which I will restore. It's in such sorry shape that I can hardly believe I made parts with it! Pops got it in the sixties, and it was already old. Maybe I'll just make it look pretty, and put it on a shelf ...

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@air54plane]

memories!!!!

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@robertlunsford1350]

My dad gave me my first lathe.

[@mrpete222]

You had aN excellent father

[@djverb1200]

I remember seeing my Uncles, 6in Craftsman lathe that he used in his little shop, when I was very young, and wished some day to own one.I was lucky enough to be able to buy it from His widow, and I cherish it along with our memories. He planted the seed, but it looks pretty small next to one of the many others,or the 20 ft monarch, but I will never part with it.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@emerycreek8016]

So much cast iron in those old beauties.

[@richardrogers567]

👍

[@davidgagnon2849]

You made 10,000 micrometers? I don't think we've ever heard that before!

[@LNM0000]

Ten .... Thousand....micrometers ? Did I hear you right mate ?

[@rustymachineshop9456]

My gosh Mr. Pete. Won't you just go ahead and buy it back? You know you want it

[@mrpete222]

Believe me, I thought of it

[@lowcashranch1412]

I'm surprised you aren't going to purchase your dad's lathe.

[@mrpete222]

I have no room for it

[@oleman]

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[@Ervan-l9v]

I am assuming you cut your teeth on this machine and influenced you to become engaged in machining.

[@mrpete222]

Yes, I did.

[@SomePoserStoleMyName]

😊

[@jbrancheck]

(:

[@Deg99]

I tried to post a link to some pictures…..message was deleted…lol if you want I can send the link to your email….if not no worries…. 🙂

[@mrpete222]

That’s odd, send it to my email.

[@vitesseguy]

Thanks Mr Pete!