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Just went and looked at the specs - 10% DUTY CYCLE @ 120 amps. Whoa.

Flux core gives more penetration per amp but crappy, jinky-looking welds. I wouldn't buy anything that couldn't at least be upgraded to gas shielding.

I think the two things that hurt the 8K were the limited swing over the bed and the lack of a quick-change gearbox. Those were notable disadvantages compared to other options buyers had at the price it was originally design to sell for.

The reason why the 8K was so much better than everything else in its price range was the same reason Grizzly discontinued it. The 8K was originally designed to retail for $3295, but it sold very poorly at that price. They sold off the remaining stock at a huge discount, and even then it took a...

Sorry if I'm hijacking the conversation, but does anybody have recommendations on a milling attachment that might be a good match for the 8K?

Just went to the Grizzly website and noticed that the 8K/SB1001 is no longer listed. I wonder if the pipeline has finally dried up.

Wow, I really should've paid closer attention to setup of my 8K before I started using it, I just lubed it and spun it in. But I got a 3/13 build out of Springfield, so perhaps mine was in better shape? In any case, it doesn't vibrate or make any undue noise, and seems happy to do what I ask of it.

I have an 8x12 shop area. It's small, but workable, even with a motorcycle in the middle of it. However, that may be because of the total lack of shop tools. (not quite true, there's a Grizzly SB 8K to the right, out of the photo).

As I said in another thread, I bought my new SB 8K to make parts for my vintage motorcycle project, and just happened to stumble on HMEM while Googling information about my lathe. I had never considered ever making a model engine, but I read this thread from front to back and it has really...

No, they're purely aesthetic (but rigidity's a nice-sounding justification!). The swingarm is offset in the frame a bit, and I thought they made it look more as though they were intentionally different lengths, instead of "oops, the left side is longer." It was also great practice to...

Here's what the final version of my shock spacers look like on the bike. Sorry for the thread jack!

I think he's saying that the connecting rod is normally attached to the small side of the counterweight "pork chop", not in the center of the large side. That's so that the greater mass of the counterweight is always moving in the direction opposite the piston's mass. Yours looks as though it is...

Well, I'm no longer a lathe virgin; I made my first part with the 8K. It's nothing impressive or terribly precise, but it does have a real use — it's a shock mount spacer for my project bike.

One thing I didn't consider up front is the cost of measuring equipment. If you don't already have a dial indicator, test indicator, a couple of different sizes of calipers and micrometers, plus a granite surface plate, you can quickly drop two or three bills or more to get decent quality stuff...

I cannot express how much I hate working with wood. But I think that's because I don't have the proper experience and skill to know how to persuade it to do what I want. Being a natural product, it's reaction can be frustratingly inconsistent and unpredictable. I find wood to be much...

Appreciate the advice. I'll do that.

I haven't gotten mine up and running yet, either, but plenty checked off the list. Main unit de-cosmolined and oiled, plus all the lube points greased/oiled tonight. Just switched the motor on for the first time for just a few seconds, just to say I had. Now I need to tackle the cross-slide...

Wow, even my bench sucks.

Greetings! I just got my first lathe, a South Bend 8K my wonderful wife surprised me with for my 51st birthday. I've ridden, raced and modified motorcycles for 34 years, so I've been around machine equipment most of my life, but I have zero experience operating them myself. I stumbled onto this...

The new baby arrived! It's not bolted down, leveled, cleaned or set up yet, but it was delivered this morning and is out of the crate and up in its bench. It's an old 1960s console TV cabinet that is very solidly built. Stopped by the John Deere dealer for a jug of Hygard Low Vis oil and I'm...