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« on: August 28, 2009, 10:21:19 AM »
Chris,
Nice going on the lathe. Let us know how it works out and if you know of anything you would have done differently.
I was going to do similar as i had some heavy duty rails but decided to convert my mint 6" Atlas instead. Like you would have had to get the mounting plate machined and a machining resource has since retired and sold out the shop ( had one of the biggest Haus mills around).
OH, just for Hood, I aligned the guys other mill , made by Cinncinnati Machine, it had a 40' long x 5' foot high bed and the counter weight for the Z head was 10 tons. He used to verticaly machine 6'x6'x 4" thick AL plates prior to having them ground. The 2' thick reinforced pad that it sat on used to move overnight and drove me crazy for a few days. Wish I took some pictures.
RICH