Lathe stand

depends on what ya want.......personally I'd make or adapt a cabinet......don't bother with just legs, a waste of space....always use heavy / thicker grade of steel.......weight is ur friend........as for the top, depends on budget.....u'll need drawers or some form of shelving.......

have fun making it........clogs

For my 1326 BH Taiwanese lathe, 275kg, I built a stand from 50 x 50 x 6 mm angle iron, its been very good for the last twenty odd years, today, knowing a bit more about things like that, I would most likely use square tube instead.

Ian S C

I used 2x2 box tubing for my LUX mill stand. It,s easy to work with,is strong and looks well. Angle iron can be messy,and never looks as well.

Dont forget to fit drawers,otherwise it,s a dead loss.

Plenty of good advice above. Whatever you do, don't use Dexion or Handy Angle. Both are great for shelving, but far too flexible for a lathe stand, even if you build in plenty of triangle sections to aid stiffness. I made that mistake once, hated the thing from the word go, and saved my money to buy a proper Myford stand.

I made myself a wooden bench for my lathe I'm going to convert to CNC. The legs are 3x4's, the top frame is 6x2 and 8x2. Everything else is from pallets. I have used it for 20 hrs and never felt it move at all. All joints are M10 studding or cross head woodscrews. There are shear panels and cross bracing. Total timber weight about 50kg. Cost 2m of M10 studding as everything else was for free.

The lathe is a Clarke CL430, about 130 kg.

If the work is well balanced, the bench material is pretty irrelevant. If the work is unbalanced, stop and put it right, you could kill yourself.

Regards

Richard.

I made a bench from 4 x 2’s with a 36mm ply top clad in Lino. It’s not shown any signs of moving or vibration but the design is well braced and panelled.