DVR lathe stand update.

[Alan Trout]

Well, I had a little time this week to get some work done on my lathe stand for the new DVR. I was able to make and mount the brackets for the casters, put a cross bar in so there will be a little more support for the ballast box and built a bracket that will serve several purposes. One it will hold tooling such as wrenches, knockout bar, live centers, drive centers etc. Also it will be part of my lamp/light mount and will hold some portion of the components for vacuum chuck setup.

I also was able to rewire the lathe for 240V. I put in the DP/ST switch and put on a locking plug. It plugs into a small load center that I installed the outlet in. It will also wire the surge suppressor in and a 110v strip outlet as well as a vacuum pump. This way one extension cord will power the whole rig.

I am going to order the Foot Master Casters for it tomorrow. The weight as it sits right now with the lathe on it, and without the bed extension or the extension hinge is right at 450lbs. I figure final weight to be close to 800lbs. with all the ballast, bed extension and swing away hinge.

Now the bad part is I am going to be gone for a good portion of the next week because of the holiday so it will be almost another week + before I get more work done.

I am very close to finishing it up. Paint will be on shortly I hope. I figure I better get it the way I want it now or it wont ever happen.

Thanks,

Alan

[curtis rosche]

looks like you are ready to turn.

if you are going to paint it, i hear they have a new acrylic paint that you can get in the gallon can, that wont chip, wont fade, and it wont grow mold from wet shavings.

[Don Carter]

Alan:
That thing is looking great. Happy Thanksgiving and keep us up to date on the progress. BTW, what color are you going to paint it? I found some hammered paint at Wally World the same color as my Nova 1624.
All the best.

Don

[Steve Schlumpf]

Alan - sure looks like the stand is going to work out great! Looking forward to seeing the painted version!

[Alan Trout]

I found some silver hammer paint in the quart container from Rustoleum. It can be thinned with Xylol and sprayed. Hopefully next week I can put some color on it. I still need to build the ballast box as well. Plus a few other misc. things to fabricate etc.

Thanks,

Alan

[Bernie Weishapl]

Alan looks like you are almost there. That is going to be one heavy duty stand. Well done.