Let's See Your Mini Lathe/mill Setups!

heliyardsale

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So I recently purchased both a Sherline 2000 8-way mill and a 4400C DRO package lathe. I'm in the process figuring out how I want to set these machines up. I've been thinking about buying something like this and pulling the casters off to make it stationary. This way I would have plenty of tool storage right under the machines. What are you folks using for your bases? Feel free to post up photos please.

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That looks better than what I have, when I got mine from my father in laws estate. They were each mounted to a metal stand from Sears, with 1" ply over 1" planks it kept things nice and flat, but each machine had it's own stand.
 
I dont have any photos of my little 8x12 hft lathe, but i mounted it on a 3 drawer craftsman lower tool box. (Should have found one with more drawers but it was only $10). I reinforced the corners with bedframe angle iron and self tapping sheet metal screws. The bottom was very flimsy too so i made a "movers dolly" with 2x4s and heavy casters. For the top i used ½ inch plywood and covered that with a dog kennel plastic floor pan. The plywood and lathe is bolted down in a few spots with some large fender washers.
 
Gunrunner you need to order a set of these for the Z axis hand crank. Bill did you just spit coffee on your monitor? :rofl:

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The cross slide has 2 AXA QCTP, the back one for parting. There is a DC motor drive for cross slide as these do not have power drive for facing or parting. The large handwheel is to drive the the TS.

The control boxes you see on the top left, one is for the DC motor driving the spindle, the other is the DRO box. The latter is not being used right now.

Here is how I use the steering wheel on the TS, turning cartridge case necks.


In case you are wondering what large gear sticking out on the left side of the HS in the original picture, it is normally the middle gear, I swapped it with gear box drive gear to slow down the carriage drive when turning. On manual operation I just kick out to disengage it, so I don't have to run the gear box.

I do not use this lathe for threading, I will eventually remove the cross slide and just bolt on a metal block for the QCTP.
 
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