Lathe Foot Print

I would have thought that in order for the 'foot print' dimensions to be useful you would have to include the extra space needed for the moveable bits, such as doors and cross slides. For instance, my Warco has a Cabinet enclosing the change gears, to the left of the Headstock. The door on that Cabinet swings out 18 inches or so. Also, I have a long cross slide which when wound fully in projects past the motor that is located on the back of the bed (Myford style). The extreme points of these bits would have to be included in the footprint else the footprint figures would be meaningless (or would they?).

The footprint of my car is 3m by 1.8m. I could fit it in a garage measuring 3m by 1.8m, but I would not be able to get in and out of the car easily, so the door openings should be included in the footprint. Space required to service the vehicle can be determined by the user of the table.

I agree that the operator space requirements would have to be figured in after as it would muddy the water.

Myford ML7 1180 x 630 (allowing for the left hand cover removal to get at the gears). Do you want the vertical dimension?

Steve

Michael,

I've also supplied half of the data Bob has.

Perhaps you could contribute the dimensions of your lathe?

Neil

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Pultra 1770

The cast iron Coolant-Tray / Baseplate is approximately 19" x 9" but this excludes any motor or countershaft.

Mounted on the maker's original cabinet stand,with the Mardrive unit; it would, of course, be much larger.

MichaelG.

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P.S. ... I am currently trying to identify the most compact lathe with a D1-3 spindle nose ... which is [in part] why Bob was kind enough to start this thread.

Atlas 10F, short bed version:

Chip tray 110 x 42 cm, need extra 16 cm at rear for motor.

Russell.

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Boxford STS 10.20

Base footprint 114 x 43cm

Swarf / coolant tray 118 x 57cm + 30cm to the 118 if you need to open the door at the side to gears / motor pulley.

Nick

The short bed Bantam is 71.125" ~ 1806mm long x 25.5" ~ 648mm [incl cross slide] wide
Colchester recommend a min. working area of 7'-6" ~ 2286mm wide x 8'-0" ~ 2436mm long.

I suppose, upon reflection, mine takes up most of that min. allocation. The suds sump and access to the change wheel storage add considerably to the footprint, or even the suds tray, depth of the machine.

HTH

Useful details of the Boxford 280 here

Dimensions, plus recomended space.

... unfortunately confirming that I don't have enough room !

MichaelG.

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Edit: similar documentation for other lathes is one page up.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 09/08/2014 08:41:14