Mobile base for 3520B

[Michael Hausman]

I've just purchased a Powermatic 3520B with the 18" bed extension and I'm looking for ideas to make it mobile. One criteria is that the lathe must rest solidly on my concrete floor while turning. Somewhere I saw a picture where a club used HF trailer jacks to move their lathe, but didn't make a copy of the picture. Would anyone know where to look?

Do any of you have other solutions as I need to park the car in the garage as well.

 

[Don Bunce]

I made a cabinet on castors that fits under the lathe. At each end is a scissors jack that raises the lathe so it can be moved. When the jacks are down, the lathe sits on the floor, completely disconnected from the cabinet. With the tools in the drawers, when you move the lathe, the tools move too.

 

[john lucas]

I've seen several good methods. One of the best for a lathe that only has to move occasionally is to weld wheels onto some angle iron and then put some bolts on this same angle iron. You crank the bolts down to raise the wheels off the floor. This can be done to give you a larger footprint which really improves the stability of the lathe. The downside is, even if you weld the wheels on so the lathe barely clears the floor it still raises the lathe too much for a shorter guy like me.
My alternative was to make some removeable rollers. The downside of that is I have to use a hydraulic jack to lift each end of the lathe to install the wheels. No more than I have to move my lathe it's not much of an inconvenience. The good side is I put really large wheels on so it's easy to move it over small obstacles or even out on the gravel driveway.

 

[jschnell1203]

I have a Powermatic 3520B and purchased the Lift Lock and Roll Lathe Mobility System from Craft Supplies. It was expensive but it works.

http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p...nd-Roll-Lathe-Mobility-System?term=Powermatic

 

[Fred Belknap]

I have a Powermatic 3520B and purchased the Lift Lock and Roll Lathe Mobility System from Craft Supplies. It was expensive but it works.

Our turning club has this system mounted on a 3520A and it works great for moving the lathe to another room for demos.

 

[Sandy Jarrell]

I also have the system from Craft Supplies and heartily endorse it. It makes it easy to move it around for cleaning. The cost is high but it's well made. I used to use hydraulic lift table from HF to lift under the bed until I built the shelf described in the PM manual. It worked well but you need more room to wheel it around.

 

[Michael Hausman]

Enlightened

Thanks everyone, great suggestions. Now all I need to do is scrape up some more of the green stuff to get to the next level.

 

[jschnell1203]

There was also an article in the AAW Journal that used either 3 or 4 trailer crank up jacks with wheels.