{"id":440,"date":"2012-06-03T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:13:38","slug":"lathe-stand-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Lathe Stand Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished building a new stand for my lathe, the old one was metal, loud and vibrated too much.<br \/>\nMy Beaver 3400 lathe now sits on a solid ash stand with 3&#8243; thick legs and has a mdf top to help absorb vibration.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve rigged up my 1750 rpm 1\/2hp motor with an in-between jackshaft to slow the whole thing down to as low as 230 rpm.<br \/>\nFrom lathe headstock to jackshaft I&#8217;m using a set of 5-4-3-2 step pulleys, from jackshaft to motor I&#8217;m using a 6-5-4 step pulley and 2&#8243; pulley.   In the future I&#8217;ll likely swap out the motor pulley for a matching 6-5-4 to take advantage of all speeds.<br \/>\nThe motor is gravity tensioned and is bolted to a swinging hinge.  The jackshaft lifts on a set of hinges but I clamp it down on shims which works just fine for now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathestand2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathestand2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lathe stand\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathestand2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathestand2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathe_drive-pulley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathe_drive-pulley-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jackshaft\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathe_drive-pulley-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lathe_drive-pulley.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished building a new stand for my lathe, the old one was metal, loud and vibrated too much. My Beaver 3400 lathe now sits on a solid ash stand with 3&#8243; thick legs and has a mdf top to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75YnM-76","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}