Ideas for Storing Very Heavy Lathe Chucks?

kiwi_007 said:
For my D1-6 chucks I built an A frame dolly on casters With pins on both sides.
The weight of the chucks keep them in place, the big 4jaw is supported by two pins on the outer dia and the 3 jaws are supported by a pin through the bore of the chuck.

The advantage is the chucks are easily moved, and they don’t take up a lot of real estate.

I got the idea off of the internet and one of the local engineering shops.
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Can we get a picture, please?
 
I have the perfect solution! You need to go to the junk yard in a big city and find yourself an old robot! My former employer threw away 10 perfectly useable material handling robots that would pick up and place those chucks precisely where you want them. You'll have to reconnect all the wiring, build new end of arm tooling, build a mobile base for it. and learn to run the teach pendant. But after that, your days of dealing with overly heavy lathe chucks are behind you.
Otherwise, I think Rabler has about the best solution I've seen. I didn't check to see if he'd posted. If not, go check out his lathe rebuild thread. He built a jib crane that uses the weight of the lathe as counterweight. Pretty slick!
 
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