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7th February 2007, 10:38 PM #1Novice
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mc1100 stand
me dad brought a MC1100 a couple of days ago and i was wandering how succesfull the stand that come with it is? it looks a bit thin and wobbly. we have a a big home made table all braced up and bolted to the garage floor and it works fine but i just wanted to no how steady the brought one is?
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7th February 2007, 10:43 PM #2
beginner,
Seems to work perfectly fine for me, but if you have already made a big heavy one, cart hurt to use itI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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7th February 2007, 10:44 PM #3
Bolted mine to the floor in a corner, chucked a couple of fair sized blanks on it and it goes alright. Must admit though, I haven't done a lot of turning lately, but that should change in the next couple of months
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7th February 2007, 11:14 PM #4
The stand ive got is fine its been bashed banged and knocked around several work shops all id do is cover the back and sides with some ply 9mm to stop the dust and shavings getting into every thing on the shelf.
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8th February 2007, 12:11 AM #5me dad brought a MC1100 a couple of days ago and i was wandering how succesfull the stand that come with it is? it looks a bit thin and wobbly. we have a a big home made table all braced up and bolted to the garage floor and it works fine but i just wanted to no how steady the brought one is?
You will find the stand adequate until you start to turn large chunks that are out of balance.
I have loaded my tray up with a 45kg bag of cement and about another 50kgs of cast iron scrap steel etc. This has a had positive effect and the lathe is now far more stable although the tray has started to bend .
However the legs are flimsy and do flex under load. Mine flexs between the tray and the lathe bed, short of stiffening them with additional steel struts I dont think theres a lot that can be done to curb this.I can swing about a 15kg lump fairly well, but the legs do flex. I use a inverter to control the rpm and find the smoothest speed and move up from there as the balance improves
With this in mind I have built a version of the Bruce Leadbetter base out of 20mm plywood and 250x75mm Oregon. It probably wieghs about 30kgs.
A bit of over kill perhaps but theres nothing worse that doing the MC1100 two step on a large chunk.Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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8th February 2007, 12:25 AM #6
If you are turning something that is unbalanced, you would of course slow the speed right down - this will help the lathe 'stay put', but the additional weights are a good idea. I have been known to be holding mine down with one foot just recently turning a large lump of fence post until it balanced!!!
You'll probably find there is the facility to dyna bolt it to the floor - good if you have settled on a shed layout.
JDLast edited by Touchwood; 8th February 2007 at 12:26 AM. Reason: typo
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8th February 2007, 10:59 AM #7
Mine seems fine. I have dynabolted it to the floor and don't have nay extra weight on it (apart from sawdust )
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8th February 2007, 12:34 PM #8Novice
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thanx fort all of ur answers but i think that ill stick to our home made stand.
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8th February 2007, 02:32 PM #9
You might think about stickin' each leg in a 5 gal bucket (0.189 cu meter), filled with sand. Then cover the buckets with ply, makes good small shelves to hold stuff and shavin's.
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