Question on King Canada 10x22” lathe stand

[Markit]

I know this is going to sound stupid but I can’t find the answer.

Planning to travel 5 hours to pickup a small king Kanada 10x 22” lathe.

Comes with the factory stand.

Does the stand disassemble?

I ask because I only have a trailblazer and if the stand doesn’t come apart I don’t think it will fit.

Thanks in advance.

 

[David]

I don't have one but I would expect that the two pedestals would separate.

 

[Susquatch]

Does the stand disassemble?

Pretty hard to imagine that doesn't come apart. It would be way too flimsy if it was moved around like it looks in the photo.

But I would bring tin snips just in case...... You can always patch it together. Besides, I'd bet the stand would work just fine without the center panel.

 

[Markit]

Amazing. Thanks all.

 

[gerritv]

It is always best to go to the manufacturers website for facts: https://files.kingcanada.com/catalog/products/servicemanualxm/SS-1022 service manual.pdf

 

[Susquatch]

It is always best to go to the manufacturers website for facts: https://files.kingcanada.com/catalog/products/servicemanualxm/SS-1022 service manual.pdf

I went looking for the manual for just that reason and couldnt find one for just the stand.

Good job Gerrit!

 

[Markit]

Thanks for this

 

[TenaciousCreations]

I can tell you from once selling these that yes it does dissamble to the two pedestals and then the sheet of metal between.

 

[Markit]

Well a 12 hour road trip from yyc to Kelowna and back with the lathe a fair amount of tooling and the stand, which as everyone stated does indeed come apart with 2 screws on each side.

Thanks again everyone much appreciated.

 

[TenaciousCreations]

Well a 12 hour road trip from yyc to Kelowna and back with the lathe a fair amount of tooling and the stand, which as everyone stated does indeed come apart with 2 screws on each side.

Thanks again everyone much appreciated.

If I had to do it over again with my 12x36 lathe, I would ditch the stand and build a better one. I find the stand that comes with makes a lot of unusable space. In my small shop, every bit of space counts.

 

[Susquatch]

If I had to do it over again with my 12x36 lathe, I would ditch the stand and build a better one. I find the stand that comes with makes a lot of unusable space. In my small shop, every bit of space counts.

Not me. The factory stands I have seen are all WAAAY better than what I could build. Usually they are heavy cast iron plates that absorb vibrations and physically designed to make alignment easier. It's actually quite easy to make a strong stand - in fact, it's even easy to make one stronger than factory. But it is NOT EASIER to make one that is both RIGID enough and strong enough. The rigidity part is the hard part. Most of us are not skilled or knowledgeable enough to be able to make a rigid stand. Better off buying the factory one and figuring out how to add storage space than building storage space and then trying to figure out how to make it more rigid.

My two cents for what it's worth.

 

[TenaciousCreations]

Not me. The factory stands I have seen are all WAAAY better than what I could build. Usually they are heavy cast iron plates that absorb vibrations and physically designed to make alignment easier. It's actually quite easy to make a strong stand - in fact, it's even easy to make one stronger than factory. But it is NOT EASIER to make one that is both RIGID enough and strong enough. The rigidity part is the hard part. Most of us are not skilled or knowledgeable enough to be able to make a rigid stand. Better off buying the factory one and figuring out how to add storage space than building storage space and then trying to figure out how to make it more rigid.

My two cents for what it's worth.

In most cases, I would agree with this on older and bigger lathes. I don't find this to be the case with the King stand; most of it is built out of sheet metal—no heavy vibration absorbing cast iron. The two pillars are connected with a piece of bent sheet metal. The pillars themselves are maybe 20 pounds each if that. Just my two cents.

 

[Susquatch]

In most cases, I would agree with this on older and bigger lathes. I don't find this to be the case with the King stand; most of it is built out of sheet metal—no heavy vibration absorbing cast iron. The two pillars are connected with a piece of bent sheet metal. The pillars themselves are maybe 20 pounds each if that. Just my two cents.

Almost all of them have a thin sheet metal piece between the two pillars. This allows the two stand pillars to be adjusted independently for alignment.

That said, I don't know how small we are talking here. I think... that there does come a point with small lathes where the attributes of the stand itself are meaningless in the big picture. That probably correlates with the lathe size which in turn probably correlates to the shop size too.

Point taken.

 

[Markit]

In most cases, I would agree with this on older and bigger lathes. I don't find this to be the case with the King stand; most of it is built out of sheet metal—no heavy vibration absorbing cast iron. The two pillars are connected with a piece of bent sheet metal. The pillars themselves are maybe 20 pounds each if that. Just my two cents.

The king Canada stand for the 10x22 is very light weight and the two pillars are indeed connected by a thin bent piece of sheet metal and 4 small 10mm or 3/8 bolts. It is a wobbly unstable platform, so much so that I used L brackets to anchor it to the wall.

Had I known this I would have built a bench.