After tipping the lathe over it’s obvious the original stand won’t work With the copier attached. I have several sheets of melamine in the rack. Any suggestions on what you have seen that would be worth having with storage?
Yes, anchoring the lathe would be the next best thing. The very best ballast in terms of vibration absorption, is a loose ballast, such as sandbags.Would securely anchoring it to the floor and wall provide a similar benefit to ballast?
I got the lathe so I could turn small stuff like handles for tools etc, Knobs for planes and the likes. I have a sheet of what we call "Coreflute" which I put up against the window when turning to help protect the window when the inventible happens. Still very new at using a lathe, so a large learning curve ahead, but another handy tool to have in the workshop.@KiwiSkyDive
I take it that you only turn small stuff like pens and other spindle work. If you decide to make bowls, I would strongly suggest you move your lathe away from the window. The trajectory of flying fragments will normally be you or the ceiling or the window.