Epoxy granite metal lathe - videos

[tonyfoale]

I found that 11% by weight was about the lowest epoxy percent I could do without starting to get more voids. Before HEAVY vibration with a vibrating table it is like damp sand and rocks (and extremely stiff to mix), it barely looks to have any epoxy on it at all. It only gets harder to mix the aggregate and epoxy together as the epoxy percentage drops, so 11% was about all my poor hands could take lol.

In an earlier post I did say " mixing 90% with 10% resin would not be physically easy."

I was going to just epoxy the same cross section of steel onto the bottom of my lathe as it has on the top, but I think your tensioning rod idea is much better. I can’t make a 48in deep hole though, so I may cut slots for threaded rods in the bottom of the base, using a angle grinder diamond wheel.

I did not think of it but cutting slots would be a very practical way of doing this. Good luck with it.