Made a wood lathe

[Ed]

10. and 11. Welded the two channels (300mm x 85mm), web support and motor support rails together.
12.Assembled the spindle pieces together, the pulleys and spacers are welded to the main shaft. Fitted the face plate, (which has a 30mm x 3.5mm threaded boss welded to the stainless steel faceplate) and is screwed on to the threaded pulley shaft and locked in place with a 10mm grub screw and also a M14 socket cap bolt from the front. This will stop the face plate from unscrewing in the event I hit one of the 3 emergency stop buttons and the VFD brakes the work piece quickly. Then machined the lot to make sure that it was all true and that the bearings will fit on it.
13. Made a bracket to hold the motor, 10mm thick and cut the hole with a plasma cutter. 4 x 9/16" bolts hold the motor to it.
14. Tool rest column is a piece of 10mm thick tube which was rusty and pitted on the inside, so had to make a long boring bar out of a 400mm x 19mm stainless rod fitted it with a TPMG 434 ceramic insert to turn the insides down to 8mm, a lot of chatter but it did an acceptable job. Put in 5 slots at the top with a thin cut off disk. The round solid rod is a piece of 60mm which I turned down to 55mm to fit the tube and the ring clamp is from a turned piece of thicker steel round bar with two lugs welded to it and a 9/16" bolt though them which clamps the tube against the tool post and holds the tool post in it's position. It's held around the tube with a 30mm long weld on the top and bottom at one end, leaving the rest of it to squash the slots against the post locking it in place.
15. The sliding part of the tool post setup is a piece of 50mm machined solid square steel, it is overkill but it was the only thing suitable that I had lying around and couldn't think of any other use that I could use it for at the time. It slides within a piece of 6mm thick channel made from a cut down and reshaped piece of 75mm SHS, welded down onto to a 16mm thick X 150mm wide scrap piece of flat bar base. A 3/4" bolt holds the sliding bar in place and another locks the whole tool rest post setup down to the Uni beam frame.
16. and 17. Weld holding the post column to the sliding arm.
18. Welded frame ready for painting with a charcoal coloured Hammer tone paint.
19. and 20. Painted, the top bar of the the tool rest is from a piece of left over truck spring welded on an angle to the post, I had cut the ends off it previously to make the turning chisels.