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South Bend Lathe (TM) & Dynablast |
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SERVICE PARTS SUPPORT Effective March 2002 LeBlond Ltd purchased the South Bend Lathe (TM) and Dynablast service parts businesses. LeBlond Ltd is the exclusive supplier of OEM South Bend
Lathe (TM) and Dynablast services parts. We have an extensive $2,000,000 parts inventory in our facility in Amelia, Ohio that is available for same day delivery. Also the original South Bend Lathe (TM) and
Dynablast documentation including machine history cards, manuals and engineering drawings are located at LeBlond. To order service parts for your South Bend lathe and Dynablast, you must LeBlond Ltd.
3976 Bach Buxton Road
Amelia, Ohio 45102
Phone: (888) 532-5663
Fax: (513) 943-0101
Email: Now LeBlond can provide quality parts support for your South Bend lathe and
Dynablast as it does for LeBlond and Standard Modern lathes, Johnson Press, Deka Drill and W.F. & John Barnes equipment. Please browse our website, give us a call at (888) 532-5663 or send us an e-mail request
from the CONTACT page. HISTORY John and Miles O'Brien, twin brothers, were born in Cork County, Ireland in 1868. Their family immigrated to Connecticut in the 1870's. At the age of 15, they
were employed at the Stanley Works plant in New England where they began learning their trade. Miles worked for a short time under the tutelage of Thomas Edison who encouraged both brothers to further their
engineering education. They did so by enrolling at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1886, John and Miles founded South Bend Lathe Works. The brothers built and tested their lathe
design in a one-room shop. Then at the age of 35, the brothers rented a one-room shop for $65 a month at the corner of W. Washington and Johnson Streets in South Bend. At one point, they built an engine for
blowing out boiler tubes but decided to concentrate solely on manufacturing lathes. By 1919, South Bend Lathe Works manufactured 44 sizes of one style of lathe, and by 1930, built 47 percent of the engine lathes in
the United States. In a quarter century, South Bend Lathe Works became the largest exclusive manufacturer of metalworking precision lathes in the world. With customers in over 88 countries, the machines were
used in every type of industry including schools, home workshops, and large manufacturers. Miles died in 1936, ending a life-long partnership with his brother John. Part of their success was their
willingness to work as equals by exchanging their duties of president and secretary-treasurer. Much of the O'Brien brother's success was also due to their focus on training skilled machinists.
At least 75% of the schools and colleges in the United States were using South Bend lathes in their engineering, vocational, and technical departments. They also developed and marketed an affordable 9-inch
precision lathe for the home workshop, capable of the same accuracy as machines used in industry. Thirty years after two brothers set out to build one lathe, 100 different styles of lathes ranging in size from 9 to
16 inch swing and bed lengths from 2 to 14 feet were manufactured. During the World War II years, South Bend Lathe Works not only received government contracts to build lathes but also received the prestigious
"E" pennant. The year following the war's end, John O'Brien died. In 1959 American Steel, later known as Amsted Industries, of Chicago, bought South Bend Lathe Works. Six years later
the company moved to the old Studebaker plant in South Bend where in 1980 it introduced its first CNC lathe called the Cyclone. |
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