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Congrats back at ya, Ron! Seems to be a lot of Mustard getting spread around these days.Congratulations Vaughn
Thanks for the pics, not to hijack your thread but I plan on doing the same thing tomorrow morning. I was considering lifting one end of the bed like you. Any idea how much the bed and the head weighs together.
I need to go from my garage, around back to my basement shop and go down 6 cement steps. I plan on using a appliance hand truck.
I couldn't tell you a guess on the bed and head weight, I know I could not budge it off the pallet by dead lifting it myself. Two people can easily remove the headstock though (or one strong person), and the individual pieces (bed included) should be moveable with the hand truck.
In a nutshell, you slide the headstock to the right end of the lathe, and put the tool rest on the lower bed. (There's a riser stem for the tool rest post, to put it back into the centerline area of the turned piece.) The effective spindle height is 19 inches at that point. Sort of like outboard turning, except the tool rest is still mounted to the lathe....I'm not sure I understand the low bed extension thingy but am sure you will show how it's used later.
Or, I can move the bed extension to the upper position (flush with the main bed) and have a 53" long bed with a 20" swing.