Made a wood lathe

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21. The back of the lathe where the motor sits, the end of the shaft has another 30mm x 3.5mm thread where I will put a round disk handle to help with spinning on the faceplate and work piece as well a some sort of locking device. It also shows the larger size bearing support plate which I can remove the bearing for changing V-Belts and to remove the pulleyed shaft if necessary.
22. Machined and drilled stainless steel face plate, machined down to 10mm thick which should be strong enough. This lathe will be able to swing a log of about 1m wide and 1m long
23. The top of the lathe head showing the insides and where a metal cover will go over it to enclose it all.
24 & 24a Made a couple of Idler rollers to tension up the belts, a bit of stainless tubing bored out at each end to fit a small ball bearing and a bolt to connect it all together, slots cut into the motor frame to allow individual tension adjusting.
25. Need an extra plate to make the fan holder end, didn't have the right size plate so found two triangular 4mm off cuts and tacked them together. Then cut out the fan hole with the plasma cutter.
26. Plate after welding.
27. Motor cover tacked up ready for welding.
28. Motor cover welded up
29. Fan installed to motor cover and fitted.