Jim Davenport
11-05-2014, 1:18 PM
Last month I took advantage of Woodcraft's "Trade in sale". I traded in my Rikon 70-100, that I bought in 2006, for a Jet 1642. They gave me $300 for the Rikon, which is fifty bucks more than I paid for it.
I talked my buddy and his truck into helping me bring it home. Woodcraft loaded it with their lift truck. When we got home, we broke down the parts, and off loaded them singly.
The bed fit on the stand for the old Rikon. We lucked out, the stand just happened to be the perfect height to install the legs.
I'm very tight on space in my garage, so everything has to be mobile. I bought a HTC adjustable base. I lengthened it with some 3/4" aluminum square tube.
rolls great. It seems very stable, But I have some camphor logs to turn. That will be the
test.
Photo's:
The first is installing the legs, with the bed clamped to the Rikon base.
Next, modifying the HTC mobile base.
Finally the lathe on the HTC base
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I talked my buddy and his truck into helping me bring it home. Woodcraft loaded it with their lift truck. When we got home, we broke down the parts, and off loaded them singly.
The bed fit on the stand for the old Rikon. We lucked out, the stand just happened to be the perfect height to install the legs.
I'm very tight on space in my garage, so everything has to be mobile. I bought a HTC adjustable base. I lengthened it with some 3/4" aluminum square tube.
rolls great. It seems very stable, But I have some camphor logs to turn. That will be the
test.
Photo's:
The first is installing the legs, with the bed clamped to the Rikon base.
Next, modifying the HTC mobile base.
Finally the lathe on the HTC base
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