New Precision Matthews 1340 Lathe

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A couple of weeks ago my new Lathe 1340 arrived. Right now I've uncrated it and stored it in my garage machine shop.

I am going to weld a mobile base that can be leveled. I was thinking about making two rectangular outriggers to attach to the separate bases. I was also going to put in a bar to straddle and connect the two outriggers. The two out-rigged bases will have the casters and the leveling legs. The thing weighs around 1600 pounds.

I'll level it in the current shop but when I finally build my new one, I'll be able to roll it in and re-level.

Any help with the design of the base would be great.

As an aside: Before I actually build the base I'm welding running gear for my welder and plasma cutter. I'll begin cutting the stock tomorrow and hopefully have it completed by this weekend (12-19).

Any help or suggestions for the lathe mobile base would be appreciated. Anyone ever made a base for a lathe so it may be rolled around the shop and then relevelled:

I've included some pics of the beast sort of before (in its modestness = cratedness)

and after in it's shameless exhibitionist state (in all of its uncratedness).











OK now the beast is revealed in the next post!!!!