For Machines Mfg. Since 8/09
Model SB1027
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
About This Machine
Capabilities
This Milling Machine is built for daily, non-stop
use in a busy industrial setting, tool room, or
school shop. It is easy to set-up, truly accurate,
and built to give you long years of service when
properly cared for. This milling machine supports
workpieces up to 750 lbs. and is perfect for face
milling, end milling, planing, slot or keyway
cutting, dovetailing, routing, drilling, reaming,
and boring to name a few. With the movable ram
and tilting head, all these tasks can be performed
on horizontal, vertical, and angled surfaces.
When equipped with additional accessories, such
as a rotary table or dividing head, this milling
machine can do even more.
Foreword
"
Most boys should learn a trade in order that
they may become skilled workmen. The trained
workman is always in demand...When a boy has
learned a trade, becomes a skilled mechanic,
he has excellent equipment with which to begin
life's battle, but he need not stop there. George
Westinghouse, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford,
and the Studebaker Brothers were mechanics,
and it was their mechanical training that
made their success possible.
" —Machine Shop
Equipment, 2nd Ed., 1920, by the O'Brien
Brothers, founders of South Bend Lathe.
The first South Bend milling machine debuted in
the 1950's. During that time, the milling machine
and the already well-established South Bend
lathes created the foundation of many tool rooms
and school shops across America and beyond
her borders. Many young people in those days
came of age on South Bend equipment, becoming
world-class machinists, mechanical engineers,
inventors, and manufacturing visionaries.
A lot has changed in the world since then. Those
same school shops have mostly been replaced
by computer labs. The technology in the rotary
dial phone, television set, mechanical calculator,
computer, and camera of that decade could
barely fit into one large room together—now
they fit into a tiny box that is no bigger than a
box of breath mints. And the average production
machinist spends more time at a computer than
at a machine. Technology has been much refined
and the world operates on a much faster pace.
But some things haven't changed. The same
human ingenuity and passion that created the
best mechanical technology of today still exists
within us. The core machines of the modern shop,
like this South Bend milling machine, are still
fundamentally important.
When you think about it, the greatest mechanical
technology of the future will be what we create
today. As the owner of a South Bend milling
machine, you are now part of a great legacy.
What will you create with yours?
Features
This milling machine features 3-axis table
movement with built-in longitudinal power feed.
It is constructed with high-grade Meehanite
castings, and the saddle and knee ways are
Turcite coated and built with wide dovetails for
maximum support and accuracy through the full
range of movement.
To ensure quality work results, we have equipped
this mill with NSK or NTN spindle bearings that
are rated to P4 (ABEC-7) tolerances. The spindle
taper is R8 and the spindle has powered down
feed with fine, medium, and coarse feed controls.
The headstock is mounted on a wide-dovetail
movable ram with 13" of travel on the column
and 360° rotating capability. The headstock itself
can swivel 90° left/right or 45° forward/back so it
can be positioned for nearly any setup needed.
To reduce the time spent doing daily lubrication,
we have outfitted this milling machine with a
one-shot lubrication system that is as quick and
easy as one pump of a lever.
Quality Allen-Bradley electrical components and
attention to detail provide dependable electrical
control of the powered movements.
And finally, this milling machine comes with a
circulating coolant system with the pump and
reservoir in the column base.
