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Record DML24 Lathe French Cleat

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stephen.wood125

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Hi all,

had 5 minutes yesterday and thought it would be interesting to try and hang my lathe on a french cleat when I wasn't using it.

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This is the hanging side, I've repeated this on the non motor end so I also have some space to clamp the lathe to my work bench.

I copied the internal angle of the cast pieces using a sliding bevel and duplicated it on my TS.

I've reinforced the bottom with a couple of washers. I'll get another picture of the lathe hanging on the wall when I go to start making my table saw base this afternoon.

In case anyone in Cheshire hears a loud crash and some swearing, hopefully this explains it :lol:
 
Haha! Yep, you're probably right.

I'm working on the principle that it's a shear load and has nice big screws and plugs holding the other side of the cleat on the wall. As well as glue for the wedge block, I've screwed it from underneath too.
 
:) probably wise.

It's only 40ish kg I have taken it down for a while to allow the glue to fully set, the PoC seemed to work ok. I'm sure I've hung heavier stuff on French cleats.

The only question mark I have is the fact that's it's on birch ply- the stuff I used is very qood quality but ultimately it's still laminated.

I will hang the lathe back there in a couple of days and then keep you posted. :lol:
 
Well it looks OK, but I am not sure I want to be lifting it on and the cleat, its probably an age thing. :-)
 
Thanks for that Bob, I wasn't aware of that with poly glues! :shock: EDIT: PVA, not PU- stupid 'short cuts!'

When I looked back on the Titebond 3 'limitations' page it said not for structural/load bearing applications! :?

I've attached the wooden wedge to the flat cleat part with 8 screws and bolted through it, but obviously I had to relieve the bottom for the nut so it's not 2x18mm thicknesses of birch ply.

I've reasonable faith in it, I could always attach another flat cleat under the bottom fixing to spread the load- my feeling with the single FC was that the weight pulling down would help hold the lathe against the cleat.

The 7mm Fischer rawl plugs took 7+kN in pull tests so I think 5 of them into solid brick should hold, especially that the pull out force is not axial.

@DaveL :lol: yes, while I'm in my mid 30s and 6'4 with some of my old second rower muscle still around it's really not much of an ask... I'm sure father time will soon disavow me of that notion! I realise it's quite a niche idea but at the moment my garage is full of junk, so any scrap of spare space I can release has to be looked at seriously :)
That is also holding me up trying any proper projects. We need a chest of drawers and a few other bits, but I need to clear some space, hence most of my wood butchering has revolved around storing things thus far :lol:
 
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