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Ok, the lathe has arrived.
I have made a "table" for it. Is made of steel and the lathe lies in a 6mm sheet. I have made 2 holes to fix it with screws, but as Misterg said, the sheet could expand at diferent rate, so one of the screws is free with a lever and I can fix it only when I´m goin to use the lathe.
I have to put another tray in the left side. The drawers are made from old boars, so the cuts are not the best. The legs are made from 20mm screw bar with nuts welded and a piece of derlin at the bottom, so I can regulate it. And the top of the table it will be fixed to the wall in the 2 rear corners to improve de stability.
About the lathe, it seems very sturdy, and it has all you reacommend me. Brushless motor, tapared bearings and metal gears. But it has 2 flaws in the desing. Maybe I´m not a machinist of the big city or laureated ingenieer, but I don´t know what the designer was thinking when he designed the change of belts. Is a big PITA. You have to lossen 2 screws. One of them, behind a pulley, with a wrench and the nut is inside the lathe so it starts turning and you cant loosen that screw! I have disasembled it and welded that nut. But it´s still difficult.
The other one is the screw to lock the carriage. Difficult acces, so I have change the screw with another one and, made a hole a put a shaft of anold printer. Now is very easy to lock the carriage.
Besides this 2 things, the machine seems very good.
Thanks again for all your help.
Thank you!!
I have made a "table" for it. Is made of steel and the lathe lies in a 6mm sheet. I have made 2 holes to fix it with screws, but as Misterg said, the sheet could expand at diferent rate, so one of the screws is free with a lever and I can fix it only when I´m goin to use the lathe.
I have to put another tray in the left side. The drawers are made from old boars, so the cuts are not the best. The legs are made from 20mm screw bar with nuts welded and a piece of derlin at the bottom, so I can regulate it. And the top of the table it will be fixed to the wall in the 2 rear corners to improve de stability.
About the lathe, it seems very sturdy, and it has all you reacommend me. Brushless motor, tapared bearings and metal gears. But it has 2 flaws in the desing. Maybe I´m not a machinist of the big city or laureated ingenieer, but I don´t know what the designer was thinking when he designed the change of belts. Is a big PITA. You have to lossen 2 screws. One of them, behind a pulley, with a wrench and the nut is inside the lathe so it starts turning and you cant loosen that screw! I have disasembled it and welded that nut. But it´s still difficult.
The other one is the screw to lock the carriage. Difficult acces, so I have change the screw with another one and, made a hole a put a shaft of anold printer. Now is very easy to lock the carriage.
Besides this 2 things, the machine seems very good.
Thanks again for all your help.
Thank you!!
