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Finally Got My Lathe Running


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It's been a bit of a journey.  I needed  a little help getting the thing 20-feet   across my shop down one elevation turn a corner and up 6"  down a very narrow way with septic pipes adjacent and another 20 feet then another  corner  then about 20 more feet & through a door into a little room and  sort of but not yet in place.

 

I hired a couple of painters  for muscle.  They were OK.

 

Then I needed a phase converter.   Got a wolf automation  7.5 HP model.

Then I had to get my electrician to hook it up.

And today  in between being very busy with domestic stuff I turned a full half inch deep chip in 4140 steel and the as yet unnamed lathe performed like a champ and it wasn't even in back gears.

Maybe tomorrow I shall put her against the wall and level her.

 

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