Sun, Jul 8, 2007, 2:06pm (EDT-3)
(Father*Haskell) doth sayeth:
I'd make the base as heavy as possible, maybe even poured concrete.
Oversized turnings have a way of making a lathe want to walk, especially
if you don't rough the blank first.
Speaking of older issues of FWW, does anyone recall the DIY bowl lathe
made from an old VW hub?

Oh yes. Or at a minimum, I'd want provisions to stack sandbags to
hold it in place, if I ever figured on moving it. Or fill it with sand
- be a pain removing it, but if would work. My preference make it as
heavy as I could, then fill it with concrete. Let someone else worry
about moving it, after I'm gone. LOL.

Don't recall that one, but do recall one somewhere from a truck
hub. It's all in what you've got handy.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
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