No Southbend lathes use babbit bearings, even the early ones.

Tony
"Karl Townsend" remove .NOT to reply wrote
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I picked up a 1919 model South Bend Lathe, 16" X 96", which needed some
TLC. I'm beginning to restore. Anyone with experience on this type of
older lathe and a restoration?

Thanks!

I didn't know southbend made lathes that large. There was an excellent
series of articles in HSM magazine that just finished on restoring an old
lathe. Well worth the read. If you have Babbitt bearings, there's a bunch
of books at Lindsay publications on how to rebuild them.

If you have to do a lot of scraping, there's a book by Connelly, I don't
remember the exact title, that's the definitive bible for machine
restoration. A fellow on this NG from a while back also put out a video
all
about scraping. Again, I don't remember his name. I've got CRS, that's not
Cold Rolled Steel, It's Can't Remember S$%^

Karl