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   On 10/18/2021 6:37 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
      
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   Wow!  Its been a while.  I finally made a place for it, cleaned up a   
   path, moved it, and jacked it down off the furniture movers its been   
   sitting on all this time.  I hope I haven't used the place on the wall   
   where I hang the furniture movers for something else.   
      
   It was a little bit of a chore.  I took out a barrel of chips so the   
   furniture movers would roll.  Then I gathered up some blocks to crib it   
   up and down.  When I had set the first set of blocks under the lathe I   
   discovered it had leveling bolts.  They had just been screwed up flush.   
   I screwed them down on the light end and set them on aluminum pads.   
   When I started on the heavy end I found one of them was missing.  Of   
   course 9/16-12 is not a common size I keep in my hardware supply.  I   
   stuck a smaller bolt through the hole and put a nut on the bottom to   
   make it adjustable.  I didn't want to leave it hanging on the toe jacks   
   or setting on wood blocks.   
      
   After I got it set down on the bolts (on aluminum pads, I discovered two   
   of them are stripped out.  It teetered back and forth on the other two   
   like me after a long weekend when I was in my 20s.   
      
   During this I ordered some 9/16-12 bolts from McMaster, fortunately   
   along with some nuts and heavy washers.   
      
   I also ordered a small cheap static (electronic) phase converter for it.   
     I'm going to try and run it just like it was designed.  If I don't   
   like that I can always swap in a VFD at a later time.   
      
   Who knows Snag.  I might actually have to start looking for a chuck soon   
   for that arbor I got from you.  I'll mostly run standard 5C collets, but   
   having a chuck may save the day at some point.  The lathe did also come   
   with an unused/uncut pie collet.  I'm not sure if I am looking forward   
   to the day when that is the answer to a problem or not.   
      
   Made a place for it:  That was really kind of good/bad thing.  Some   
   years back Grizzly had a sale on a 3 phase (internal VFD) vertical   
   bandsaw.  They titled it (optimistically) as a wood and metal cutting   
   saw.  Technically it would cut metal, like almost all wood working tools   
   can cut aluminum.  It had nearly zero torque at steel cutting SFM. I did   
   cut a couple pieces of steel with it, but it was torturous.  For the   
   last few years I've done any vertical metal cutting by tipping up one of   
   the horizontals.  I had the vertical bandsaw listed on Facebook market   
   place off and on for years, and I really begrudged the space it was   
   taking up.  Finally somebody offered me half what I paid for it, and I   
   snapped it up.  I didn't really think of it at the time, but it turned   
   out to probably be the best place in the shop for that turret lathe... a   
   barrel and a half of chips later.  Thank goodness for scoop shovels.   
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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