"Dan Bollinger" wrote in message
m...
if you can lift it - mini lathe
if you and a friend can lift it - midi
if you can push it around with a dolly - maxi
if you can't lift it with a pallet jack - big lathe
if you install the lathe first, then erect the building - really big
lathe

If you stand on it to operate it - humongous lathe

http://www.owwm.com/PhotoIndex/detail.asp?id=439
http://www.owwm.com/PhotoIndex/detail.asp?id=2943

By the way, these are all wood lathes, pattern makers lathes, to be exact.
I've seen one of these monsters in a foundry. Dan

Of course you've all seen this semi-portable big lathe:

http://www.peter-andres.com/www_root/index_ie.html
http://www.peter-andres.com/www_root...kord&Nummer=0#

- Owen -