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PM 3520C assembly advice

Funny, I helped relocate one yesterday! We had a HF lift cart on one end, no lift cart on the other. Needless to say, night and day difference! My ever aging back votes for the cart…if you have room to store it. Headstock simply slides right off the lathe. Right on to the cart; right off the cart, right into the PU truck. Cart holds the lathe body while legs are easily removed! It’s a no-brainer!!
 
Fred Hargis said:
John Snow...do you have a plan for the assembly now? (Congrats, BTW)
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What a wonderful trove of good advice! I will probably go the engine hoist route, also fabricating and attaching some kind of handle or lifting eye for the headstock.

However, this is a bit in the future. I was all ready to receive the lathe yesterday, but hadn't heard a word from the shipping company. Plus, for several days the tracking website had said that it had already been delivered .... yesterday. I gave them a call, and as it turned out, the truck had had an accident. An accident so bad that the lathe was declared "lost", and an insurance claim had been filed. I gave Woodturners Catalog a call and they knew all about it. They told me a new lathe was already on its way to me for next Monday. Fingers crossed!
 
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