Ended on 08/22/15

thanks for all the updates and letting us follow you along this ride! :cowboy_hat_face:

08/06/15 Final video of the lathe being installed, posted in the OP. Short and sweet, easy as could be.

No worries, I will make sure to leave it to another BLF member in my will, so it continues on.

First lathe mod in the works, photos in the bottom of the OP.

ORSM!

Bring on the lathe pron.

Seriously, though, thanks for inviting us along on the journey. I fear that I’m gonna learn enough to want one of these beasts.

Hey there Old-Lumens. Thrilled you have all these new tools and machinery. Having been in the CNC machinery industry going on 25 years, I have accumulated a number of items that I think you may have a need for or may be helpful to have. I’d like to put a little care package together for you. I love your work and understand having the proper tool makes life easier especially the custom work. A gift from me to you if you will PM me your address to where I can send the package to. Love my custom Mag you did for me, friends are envious. :smiley:

LumenTodd

:slight_smile:

Magnets to hold it in place or a long pin(coat hanger) replacing the hinge pins?

very cool justin!

i am jealous! :wink:

How did the lathe get to be moved from the floor to the bench top — by O-L all by himself?

OL is constantly updating the OP with new info. How he did it “by himself” is outlined there :slight_smile:

(OL is appending all new info to the first post)

Glad to see you got your lathe!

Just watched your vids.. and it surely sounds like someone is having a great time....!!

There is the lathe pic on the floor and the next pic is the lathe all installed on bench top. There is no intermediate pic or explanation.

The cherry picker, Sam. Technically it’s an engine hoist, used for lifting the engine out of a car to replace it or rebuild it.

Justin didn’t film that part because he was afraid he would lose the lathe and didn’t want that memorialized if it killed it. :wink:

He put straps around the lathe, hooked the straps to the bar on the hoist, then jacked it up with a hydraulic jack at the rear. The long bar lifted the lathe then Justin slid the bench he made underneath it. After lowering the lathe onto the bench, he removed the straps and the hoist. After bolting down the lathe to the bench, he used a pallet jack to drive the entire assembly into position. Again it’s a hydraulic jack operating a simple “fork lift” that you man power into position. The pallet jack is designed to lift a pallet off the ground high enough to then roll it around and move it. Usually used in warehouses and tractor trailers to maneuver pallets a short distance by hand.

I believe the video shows it...in parts.

These guys are right, it’s all in the video.
The video is a series of stills, spliced together as sort of a slideshow. That’s why I remembered them as pictures.
I hope OL doesn’t mind, here is a few captures from the video showing how it was done,



Sweet!

@dchomak - Thank you. I tend not to think about people not being able to see the vids. I need to take stills too, but I never seem to remember.

The final setup looks very nice!