I hope so, Brav.
Did I mention that it is huge? I know it isn't a 14" lathe, but holy smoke, it is big. It is twice as big as my Grizzly was.
We are in between arms of tropical storm Bill, so it's taking a break from raining. I took advantage of the time to poke around on the lathe some.
The manual has a dimensioned drawing of the mounting hole locations. If I can get Matt or someone from Quality Tools to send me some dimensions of the chip pan, I can get started on the bench top. At least I can cut it to length, drill the mounting holes and install T-nuts, and paint it so will be ready when the chip pan arrives. It is possible I will become overly anxious and mount the lathe before the chip pan gets here.
The new QCTP should arrive Thursday. The extra tool holders will be here tomorrow.
I measured the feet of the lathe bed so I can purchase a couple pieces of 1/4" cold rolled steel to embed in the bench top to give the lathe a firm purchase on the top. The mounting holes are between the ways. I don't much like that, but that's what it is. I considered extending the cold rolled plate out past the sides and making some adjusting screws to true the bed, but I don't think I'm going to do that.
I need to find out how accurate of a machinist level will suffice for truing the bed. Some of them are accurate to .0001", which is a few seconds of a degree. The ones I could possibly afford are good to .001. Maybe I'll post an item for discussion. I don't see myself forking out $500 for a level.
I thought it came with a 4-jaw chuck, but it doesn't. I got mixed up between the accessories of the PM1227 and PM1228.
I probably should be ashamed to admit it, but I never used the 4-jaw chuck that came with my Grizzly.
It also doesn't come with a tailstock chuck or live center. I purchased a Chinese Jacobs 5/8" drill chuck and taper a couple weeks ago. I hope it will do.
I have a cool MT2 live center with multiple size and shape centers. I purchased a MT-2 to MT-3 bushing for it at the same time I ordered the drill chuck.
The tailstock quick lock it cool. It isn't a cam lock, but a bolt that goes all the way to the top of the tailstock and is tightened with a lever nut like the tailstock quill lock.
The estimate says it comes with a D1-4 cam lock chuck, but the manual says it is a D1-5. I have no idea how to tell the difference.
I removed whichever chuck it is to lighten it up some. That's awesome. It took some taps with a soft hammer to loosen the cams, but once they were loosened, it just dropped right off. They aren't kidding when they say to put a piece of plywood over the ways.
I had a moment of panic with I took off the 4-way tool post. There was a shoulder around the mounting bolt. I remembered reading about Sieg lathe compounds haveing to be milled down to accept a QCTP.
But, I also notice that the bolt and shoulder were black which clued me that it might screw out.
I does, but you have to loosen a sneaky little set screw on the back of the compound.
I had to take the wheels off for it fit under the shed roof.
