Thread: Need help saving my lathe

Originally Posted by woodworm1

...see if you can at least park it at a friends place.

Good suggestion. If you can't do that, put the foot down and tell her it's her or the lathe.

Raff,

Don't sell your LATHE, I have a very small UNIMAT3 Lathe, and some time ago I was tempted to sell it as I was not using it,, My Wife TOLD me not to , as she said it had saved me too many times with small jobs on cars etc.
That's what I like about my wife she doesn't mind me buying tools and machines because she knows that I use them..

Make some ornamental pieces for the house and she will change her mind..

Just to show that I am continually confused with this woman (she probably reckons it keeps me from getting complacent...) I gently moved the conersation towards me being able to break to lathe down and move it relatively easily... She then asks me why?? I said well it makes it easier to sell it doesn't it?? But we were driving over to the new house to meet a bloke who was putting up some blinds and I happened to mention that I might be bringing the lathe with me as it wasn't a big deal moing it once it was broken down. I am tense waiting for her to start at me for not getting rid of it when she just answers that it is good that I am keeping it. Believe me I was flabbergastered especially when I reminded her that she had insisted that it go before we moved, to which she replied that it wasn't her idea that it had to go but that I was the one who had made the decision to get rid of it.

So here I am wondering whether to be happy that I get to keep my lathe without a fuss, or to be ###### that she had put me through hell about it or to just accept that I will never understand what makes her tick and to just accept she is batshit crazy.

So anyways, it means I not only get to keep my lathe, but I can also now get myself a mill and anything else I can fit in this new place. I am in the process of organising some pallet racking to store the 20 plus motorbikes and scooters I have plus I think i may possibly build myself a gantry to use for various things perhaps including moving the lathe so I dont have to tear the bastard down.

But haing said that, I think I will get the info on disassembly and do it that way anyways, so I will grab that help if possible.

Anyways so I now need some help in designing myself a decent gantry. I thought I might be able to score one from one of them cheapo tool/machine shops that have popped up around the joint but it seems they don't make them for next to nothing in Asie yet.


Sooo, if you guys could help me in designing a gantry with perhaps a 2 tonne capacity. I doubt I will be lifting anything near two tonnes but it seems like a decent margin for safety.

I reckon I will use I beam for the beam on it but I am up in the air as to what to use for the rest of the frame.

I will be able to work out a design I reckon, I will get something together on Autodesk inventor for people to critique.

Sell the wife and keep the lathe mine have always been good to me and they don't talk back.
Mal

There is NO WAY I would ever sell my lathe and I'm a woman. I had to sell my pottery wheel years ago and still regret it....... we were moving into a caravan and it would not fit in the door, also I was in a wheelchair at the time and that did not help....

I have not used my lathe for awhile either but still love to see Jenavene the Jet lathe sitting there waiting for me...... I would NOT ever be selling my lathe for all the tea in Chine or any bloke for that matter either......if another turns up he'll need to be a woodie......

Marg.

Interesting, Why didn't she quip about the motorbikes?? My wife doesn't understand why I need more than 1 lathe or mill but I have said that when I run out of room in the Workshop and Garage that the spare rooms will do me...

Originally Posted by raff35

Just to show that I am continually confused with this woman (she probably reckons it keeps me from getting complacent...) I gently moved the conersation towards me being able to break to lathe down and move it relatively easily... She then asks me why?? I said well it makes it easier to sell it doesn't it?? But we were driving over to the new house to meet a bloke who was putting up some blinds and I happened to mention that I might be bringing the lathe with me as it wasn't a big deal moing it once it was broken down. I am tense waiting for her to start at me for not getting rid of it when she just answers that it is good that I am keeping it. Believe me I was flabbergastered especially when I reminded her that she had insisted that it go before we moved, to which she replied that it wasn't her idea that it had to go but that I was the one who had made the decision to get rid of it.

So here I am wondering whether to be happy that I get to keep my lathe without a fuss, or to be ###### that she had put me through hell about it or to just accept that I will never understand what makes her tick and to just accept she is batshit crazy.

So anyways, it means I not only get to keep my lathe, but I can also now get myself a mill and anything else I can fit in this new place. I am in the process of organising some pallet racking to store the 20 plus motorbikes and scooters I have plus I think i may possibly build myself a gantry to use for various things perhaps including moving the lathe so I dont have to tear the bastard down.

But haing said that, I think I will get the info on disassembly and do it that way anyways, so I will grab that help if possible.

This post reminds me of how lucky I am. I have never had a missus. Bachelor for ever. Trade the missus in on a Milling machine. I must add I had the perfect Mother god bless her little cotton sox. Strip the damn thing down and hide it. Or I will store it for you at Newport Railway Workshops and you can come and work it with me and you will have access to other machines. Send me a PM 4-6-4

Originally Posted by 4-6-4

Strip the damn thing down and hide it.

The wife or the lathe? (sorry ladies, couldn't resist)

Dear Raf. I was serious about the offer to store your Hercus and to sweeten the deal I would fit it with an extended crosslide and a tool holding system just for something for me to do. The lathe would be yours and you could come and get it any time you can convince the missus of the error of her ways. You can send me a PM if you are interested.
4-6-4