Mobility for Nova 1624 II Lathes
My club just received 4 Nova 1624 II lathes with the leg stand and needs to come up with a way to make them mobile for storage between use. The lathes will be stored in a large closet (room) that has double door access, but also need to fit through a 36" door to take to other sites and to load in elevator. The lathes are too heavy to just manhandle. What has anyone done to make their unit movable?
advice on installation of locking swivel casters
Thomas, I'm a new member to this forum and came across your post regarding mobility for your NOVA 1624 II lathes. I have recently had to downsize my shop into a garage space and am looking to put locking casters on my NOVA (same model as yours). If you don't mind, would you respond to a couple of questions to point me in the right direction. I have ordered double locking casters from Woodcraft: 3/8 spindle bolt on a 2 1/2" caster (I couldn't find a 2" model). My question is this, did you simply take out the bolt that came in the legs and that attached to the stem for the original swivel casters? Or, did you leave that stem on the leg and remove the bolt from the locking caster that you purchased and screw it onto that stem? Seeing this in print, it sounds like a stupid question and I apologize but I can't see down to the end of the leg and so am concerned about removing that bolt and not being able to remount it in the future if I needed to because of the difficulty in locating a washer and nut inside the leg cavity.
Anyway, I would be greatly appreciative if you could respond and give me some pointers on the best way to do this.
Thanks in advance, grateful for your consideration and time,
Bruce Scism
Follow-up to caster selection/install
Which (what) casters did you install (i.e., double locking swivel, 10M stems) ? Was it as simple as unscrewing the standard leveling caster and screwing in the locking caster?