There are many here that have more knowledge than I. When you have a lathe and/or a mill you look at tasks differently. A collet chick with collets, a three jaw chuck, some thingys in the bucket, looks like a drill chuck on top, and what appears to be rotary table. There are some very desirable accessories in the photos. There are a couple of easy checks that can be done to quickly check condition That has character, like many of us old farts. After you see what condition it is in plan from there. Find a copy of "How to Run a Lathe" a book by Southbend from the '50s and still the go to for beginners. Search Ebay for Southbend 9A just to see what is out there. I know you said you have ordered some books but please consider this Set it with the lathe and even if you never get to it it's there for whomever gets it next. A bit of a pain to clean off but worth it. Oily sawdust seems, in my experience, to protect the metal it coats. Some of these old lathes were used for wood because the owners ran out of metal projects before they ran out of time. What I like is that it's covered (I think) in sawdust.
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