Hi,
I'm interested to hear you say that. I've been meaning to buy a lathe for years now and am approaching crunch time. I was thinking of something like a Boxford or similar but the only place I've got for it is the first floor bedroom. This has a typical modern floor with chipboard on top of wooden beams. Can anyone here say whether this is a reasonable thing to attempt ? I intended to put some inch or inch and a half ply down as a base - would that be enough ?
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Who is this Thelma bint you're tripping down memory lane with then eh John? ;-)
Regards, Tony
I think getting it up there may be your first problem, but I suppose it could be dismantled for carying. Does it have to be that big?, I've got an emco compact5 which is quite a nice little machine, and could easily be carried upstairs. Even a myford would be quite a bit lighter.
Another consideration, if you are not in a detached house, will be vibration when running -could make you unpopular with the neighbours.
Regards
Kevin
No reason why not, but watch out for the floor sagging if it is too far away from a supporting wall underneath.
When we rebuilt our church hall back in 1986, we had plans for a big open hearth stone fireplace, and had the floor joists doubled up under that area as it was not going to have a supporting wall directly underneath. In the event we didn't proceed with the fireplace but the timbers are still there, and we also had a steel girder across the workshop ceiling to save having a central pier in the middle of the workshop florr. The workshop is 28ft X 22ft approx.
Peter
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I had a Boxford in an upstairs bedroom for quite a while with no problems. That was straight onto floorboards.
Handy if you turn in your sleep
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You did that joke last time I mentioned this. New material man! That's what you need. ;^)
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Yes, that had occurred to me too :-)
I suppose it's easy enough to dismount the apron and the tailstock, after that it starts getting a bit more intricate. My cunning plan was to hire some people to move it for me, or else buy from somewhere like G&M tools who specialise in selling machines to the great unwashed.
Not really, but ISTM Boxfords are much better value than Myfords. I was talking to a someone who runs a machine shop a few years ago and he said "Oh, don't get a Myford". You had to see the expression on his face when he said it to get the full import though ;-)
I would be prepared to consider a Myford, they are certainly quite a bit lighter than a Boxford but a nice one with a power cross feed is probably around a grand more than the equivalent Super 7. And smaller too boot, not that I've any plans to build anything bigger than a 1/4 scale Merlin .
Of course the best solution would be to build a workshop at the end of the garden but it's a bit too small to be a practical proposition. Either that or a new house...
I was going to put it in the corner of the party wall between me and the neighbours and the one at the back of the house. Should be basically well supported but I dunno about the strength of the joists. They'll be running along the length of the lathe which means that it'll only be supported by 2 or 3 joists so I was wondering if it'd be worth adding some cross members to spread the load across a few more ?
Well that's an idea - doubling them up would be easier and probably stronger too.
That's useful to know, did you do anything to support it with extra joists or anything ? I assume it was sited against a load bearing wall or two ? Also, Kevin mentioned the noise and vibration factor was that much of an issue for you ? (Of course houses vary such a lot it's hard to generalise - mine's just a modern 3 bedroom terraced job so not the best place to make a lot of loud noise at night).
Lol, It's been a long time since I worked in a machine shop - I don't know if the prevalent smell of oil would lead to any nostalgic dreams. :-)
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No, It was up against a load-bearing wall, and the joists ran front-to-back (if you see what I mean).
It wasn't a issue for *me* ;^)
I wouldn't put it up against a neighbour's wall, if I were you.
The first thing we did when we looked for a 'new' place back in 1985 was to insist on a detached house. No noisy neighbours! and car parking on our own front, no more nicked parking spaces outside. We had the factory guy next door park outside our place during the day when we moved in, but 'rearranged' the front drive so he couldn't park anywhere along our front without blocking our access. Cheeky sod had a drive-in factory entrance and covered parking!
Although we haven't got any gardens to speak of, we do have plenty of space for machinery :-))
Peter
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"American Design"? Telmas actually came from across the little ditch.
As for their performance, down here we had no problems and on the long steep grades around here, we had 44 ton GVW units that could just about double the descent speed compared with Jake brake equiped vehicles of the same GVW. With total reliability, I might add, I wish I could say the same about the engines, crap AEC AV760s, Repowered the units within 12 months much to Brit Leylands dismay.
Tom Perhaps your lot erred on the side of capacity & price?
And that engine is far more interesting than any water feature I've seen
Regards
Kevin
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