mark ravensdale
03-19-2013, 8:19 PM
Well it arrived today, first impressions are "damn this things heavy!!!"
had no one around to help so had to assemble it myself, somehow I managed it, though I did think I had bitten off more than I could chew when it came to moving the lathe bed (but it's amazing what you can lift and walk with when you really need to turn some wood ;-) I thought the hard part was over once I had the legs on, but then that left the headstock, lifting it was fairly easy but lining it up so it could slide on the bed OHH MY WORD!!! I won't tell you the words that came out my mouth but they would not have gone down well in church, anyhow long story short it's up and running, only managed a couple of minutes turning, but straight away it feels solid as a rock and has much less vibration than my dvrxp, tomorrow I will be adding my ballast box to it with abt another 400-450lbs on it, think I will leave it at that then (should be enough I think) cannot wait to get a nice 14-16inch wet blank on it!!!
my advice to anyone thinking of getting a 3520b would be "get someone to help" when you assemble it!!! (seriously !!!)
had no one around to help so had to assemble it myself, somehow I managed it, though I did think I had bitten off more than I could chew when it came to moving the lathe bed (but it's amazing what you can lift and walk with when you really need to turn some wood ;-) I thought the hard part was over once I had the legs on, but then that left the headstock, lifting it was fairly easy but lining it up so it could slide on the bed OHH MY WORD!!! I won't tell you the words that came out my mouth but they would not have gone down well in church, anyhow long story short it's up and running, only managed a couple of minutes turning, but straight away it feels solid as a rock and has much less vibration than my dvrxp, tomorrow I will be adding my ballast box to it with abt another 400-450lbs on it, think I will leave it at that then (should be enough I think) cannot wait to get a nice 14-16inch wet blank on it!!!
my advice to anyone thinking of getting a 3520b would be "get someone to help" when you assemble it!!! (seriously !!!)