Catalogue picture of a Sanches Blanes  Model C with screwcutting by changewheels and hand cross feed. The bed feet resemble those fitted to South bend lathes of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The micrometer dials appear to be just slightly larger than those of the parent machine.

Rather than a V belt running from a V pulley on the motor to a narrow flat belt on the countershaft (as on the USA version) that on the Sanches Blanes used two V pulleys.

A later "Model TMB230 " Sanches Blanes (in effect a Model A South bend) with screwcutting gearbox and power cross feed. Although a standard South Bend type swing-open changewheel guard was fitted the headstock belt was guarded by a proper hinged cover. The tumble reverse lever used, like the Boxford and some other clones, a quick-action, spring-loaded selector instead of the slow-to-use South Bend original that required a bolt to be slackened and retightened when the setting was changed.

The disposition of the indents holes shows this lathe to have a gearbox set to cut inch-pitch threads.  Note the capstan drive for the tailstock barrel (a rare but useful fitting) and the oversize thread dial indicator. It is not known if the graduated handle fitted to end of the leadscrew is home-made or official accessory.

The countershaft of the later Sanches Blanes  had an overhung 3-step V-belt drive pulley. This lathe has been fitted with a Boxford T-slotted cross slide - the most significant improvement that it is possible to make to any South Bend 9-inch lathe or clone.

Timken taper roller bearing were used on the headstock spindle and (expensive) helical backgears. The helical backgears would have been quieter and smoother running than the original (spur) type and the taper roller bearings would have helped to cope with the additional end thrust that installations of this type usually generates.

A Model A Sanches Blanes screwcutting gearbox