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- Mar 16, 2017
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My PM-1340GT arrived today. Now the fun begins! I ordered the lathe quite awhile ago and originally ordered the cast iron stand. Unfortunately Matt is having trouble with the vendor for these stands and has been unable to get them completed. He offered to send me the sheet metal stand and then replace it when the cast iron stand is available but I felt that once I got it put together, I would not want to do it again. I decided to go with the sheet metal stand as I didn't want to wait any longer and it saves me some money to put toward a DRO.
I requested lift gate delivery but ran into a little issue when UPS arrived. The lathe was loaded lengthwise in the truck and there was another shipment next to it so that the UPS driver could not get his pallet jack under the pallet. Fortunately I was able to borrow my neighbors Bobcat and we wrapped a strap around the pallet and I was able to pull it out of the truck far enough to get the pallet jack under it and maneuver it onto the lift gate. After that, everything went fine. It is now sitting in my shop waiting for me to make space for it and get the stands set up.
I have a rotary phase converter I will initially run it on, but plan to build out a VFD when I get time. I have spent the last few months reading everything on this site related to the 1340GT and have a long list of projects to work on to customize the lathe.
I think I will add a DRO PRO magnetic DRO and my first project will be a spider.
I expect that I will have a lot of questions as I am fairly new to machining, having done a little on a Sherline, but nothing this size and hopefully I will be able to learn a lot here.
Paul
I requested lift gate delivery but ran into a little issue when UPS arrived. The lathe was loaded lengthwise in the truck and there was another shipment next to it so that the UPS driver could not get his pallet jack under the pallet. Fortunately I was able to borrow my neighbors Bobcat and we wrapped a strap around the pallet and I was able to pull it out of the truck far enough to get the pallet jack under it and maneuver it onto the lift gate. After that, everything went fine. It is now sitting in my shop waiting for me to make space for it and get the stands set up.
I have a rotary phase converter I will initially run it on, but plan to build out a VFD when I get time. I have spent the last few months reading everything on this site related to the 1340GT and have a long list of projects to work on to customize the lathe.
I think I will add a DRO PRO magnetic DRO and my first project will be a spider.
I expect that I will have a lot of questions as I am fairly new to machining, having done a little on a Sherline, but nothing this size and hopefully I will be able to learn a lot here.
Paul