He'll yea! Guys keep it up.....I am about to get my la blond running and I need parts!

Hi Chris just got our 1660 dropped off today in portsmouth . Looks great, hoping to get all wired up tomorrow. Thanks again and cant wait for the mill to show up.

I am so thankful that you are doing this I specifically bought my la blonde lathe because of you guys❤

Hi DTE 26 is Medium Heavy...DTE 24 is light. Can you clarify?

one tip, as the feed gearbox has straight cut gears inside, DON'T change while it's running, thats how you grind the gears, it doesn't have synchromesh like your cars' gearbox!!; INSTEAD turn it by hand, or jog it only, that way things slide in easy, no damage done.

i love that yall are making videos like this! pleas dont stop!

Those are some beautiful lathes.

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Wow, I didn’t realize these were still available ? Are they made in the USA still ? Where can I purchase one ?

I thought there was a lesson involved in this?

The gear that engages on the leasdscrew is missing o my old 13 inch Leblond the leadscrew is one inch by six tread per inch

Its not there

Good afternoon, could you advise me on the oils used by the lathe. We recently acquired a lathe which in the manual says that the following oils are used. Headstock Oil type mobil DTE Light or Iso 32 but we have Mobil Nuto H32 hydraulic oil, and for the gearbox and apron the manual says to use Mobil Vactra 2 or Iso 68 but we have Shell Tellus S2 M 68. Can they be used?

Beutyfull sar

I love my 3 LeBlonds!

I have 3 old LeBlond lathes that I love. I have rebuilt two of them and they perform like new. I would like to get a brand new one someday.

78+200@π#####✓©®

I have a 1970’s Victor 20X40 and it looks like they stole the headstock design from LeBlond. I really appreciate this video though, I’m in the middle of a full bearing replacement of the headstock and was worried about the inner tapered roller bearing seating on the spindle correctly. Thanks

Is that blue plastic gear

How do you determine depth of cut on metric threads

Nice presentation sir

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In 1984, I helped tow a ship that was built in 1945 and laid up in 1946, to be sunk as a target off Puerto Rico. In the machine shop there was a large mint condition LeBlond lathe and a smaller Shelden Lathe which I actually disassembled and had for 30 years. The LeBlond went down with the ship, sad.

Resent (Feb 06/ 2021) purchase of a 1941 (Build Date) Regal 17, Model # D-2651, Sold 8/30/41 to the Manitowoc ShipBuild Co., Wisconsin. Now 4th owner possibly. I was issues a copy of that Bill of Sales from seller. Nice to have a piece of LeBlond History residing in our small Shop. Jerry @ Bears Rod Shop, TX.

As a Leblond this is so cool

100% Asian turd lathe. Same casting as a Willis Asian lathe. These things are complete shit.

How much this machine

I can't believe this video has been posted since 2013 and no comments!!! What are people thinking?

I think you need someone else showing off your lathe. Someone that knows what they are doing and can speak eloquently. Just my opinion ... sorry.

Thath machine is from usa or chinese?

Do you guys really make money with these machines, is there a lot of work for these machines.

Machine levelling is an oxymoron of a term. It's main use is to obtain a geometrically aligned machine tool. a lathe in this case. It does not matter if the machine is not perfectly aligned to the earths gravity, so long as the machine is geometrically aligned (so it turns straight and parallel, etc.). Levelling the machine to get the coolant to flow back is of very much secondary importance, and even if the machine were 1 degree out of parallel to gravity the coolant will still flow ok! The levelling operation can even influence whether the machine spindle points upwards or downwards relative to the longitudinal slideways.

Looks like a Chinese paint job.

Some pretty rough looking castings.

La seña que hizo en el minuto 2:32, la famosa del dedo de enmedio!😱

@ 2:14 You can very well disengage as long as you use the thread-chasing dial to re-engage at the correct point. It doesn't matter what threads you're working on.

price please

you are going about this the wrong way...put a big chunk of cold rolled steel on that bad boy make some heavy cuts with real audio , show the damn thing doing work and people will be more likely to buy it

No audio, no description of lathe specs. Lets see it under power taking some heavy cuts, turn a test bar on it and post the results. You won't get many views without better quality videos, regardless how good the machine is...

What is price

You can disengage half nuts on a metric thread. I did a 1.75mm pitch today and disengaged 2-3 times. I did a few 2.00mm the other day and disengaged about 6 times. Each time the gear train and the tool point married exactly the same as when the half nuts first engaged but the only difference was the mesh of individual teeth on individual gears. But given the fact that a gear is exactly the same on any radial degree, it didn't matter. It takes about 15-20 seconds to begin the pass again once you've mastered the skill.