Coincidentally I ordered a PM-1030V just earlier this week. The bench stand was on backorder so I elected to by locally a ICON 73" Tool Chest to place the lathe on after it arrives next week. The tool chest will give me tons of drawers for both lathe and mill tooling, plus extra room on the side of the lathe for misc things. I enjoyed your unboxing video and look forward to the delivery of my first lathe as you demonstrated. Quinn of Blonde Hacks fame is also one of my favorite Machinist KZfaq creators.

Do another vid in a year. These noobie, lookie what I just got, vids are cute but they are not very informative as excitement is the main ingredient. I bought a Grizzly mill and lathe and have never looked back. Love making chips without dips. The first thing you have to do with all these overseas machines is disassemble and clean them. Then go through all the adjustments. I made a table for my lathe with adjustable feet, the mill came with a stand that I anchored to the concrete because it is not very sturdy otherwise. The first thing I did on my lathe was to get rid of the round 2 bolt cross slide adjustment ring. I made a 4 bolt out of 5/8 plate. The parting/cutoff tool works a lot better on 2 inch round of the tool holder is solid. That cross slide feed is a nice feature that mine does not have, that might be a project in the future to upgrade mine. Forge On!!!

congrates on new lathe i been eyein 1 of them up ! in begining of video when ya thanked everybody ya prolly shoulda mentioned wife 1st for future purchases ! good luck with lathe

Great job!

Congratulations

Thank you for being my friend!

Holy BLUE Batman.

If you can't trust the concentricity of the dead centre in your headstock, chuck up an offcut and machine a 60 degree point on it. So long as you don't remove it from the chuck (or remove the chuck from the spindle), it is guaranteed to be 100 percent concentric with the lathe spindle.

I recommend getting yourself a label maker, and putting some labels on the controls, to remind you which way the controls go, for longitudinal feed, cross feed, etc., to avoid selecting the wrong position and ruining the workpiece, or worse crashing the tool into the chuck.

that wall spacing....made me pucker a bit. Absolutely wild. What's the clearance? Quarter inch?

OMG

A 98 level isn't generally used for machine tool setup. Level really doesn't matter here, what you are looking for is bed twist. A precision level with accuracy to .0005"/10" or better is what is generally used for machine tool installs. These bench top lathes are generally very stiff due to their size. I have an 1127 sitting on a roller tool chest lagged to the wall and the machine cuts straight. Never bothered to level it. Just checked for twist. The company I manage sells a lot of different brands and styles of CNC machine tools and we use electronic levels and Starrett 199's also Mitutoyo 960's. Even large CNC slantbeds are not truly level after install, they are installed for the least amount of twist.

Hope you're enjoying your new machine. The old british lathe I recently acquired had a "run in" procedure in the operators manual. Do these new machines need to be run in ?

it is hard to see from these angles, but it looks like you might have some difficulty if you need to remove the tailstock

Have you tried to open the gearbox access door?

wondering why once you got the lathe close to bench you didnt slide the leggs back so you didnt have to push on it because leggs hit the wall..I've done it a couple times with my cherry picker moving engines around to get on bench against wall..for good measure i put a 4 45lb weight plates thru a chain hanging from from piviot point on crane arm..probly dont need em for balance but i feel better doing it..

Instead of putting the level on 1-2-3 blocks, put the level on the cross slide, and run the carriage along the length of the ways. Also, it doesn't matter if the lathe is a fraction out of level, lengthways. Indeed, for a lathe with flood coolant it's recommended to have the end of the lathe where the coolant drain point, in the sump is, a little lower than the other end, so the coolant runs toward the drain point, rather than away from it, leaving a puddle of coolant in the sump.

just bought same lathe & waiting for it to ship. Question, does the boom on your hoist not extend any further?

Safety glasses

With it that close to the back wall, is there room to swing open the headstock gear train cover?

Have you left room to remove the tailstock?

Ways can have some scratches and small dents and be just fine

Bolting it to the floor? Are you in earthquake country? My lathe cabinet is on casters, so I can move it around easily.

Я думаю виброопоры были бы намного лучше.

And how much you pay for it

Those stands are terrible. Much better off getting a heavy duty workbench, you get better storage then too and they are easier to level.

You seriously need to learn how to measure from a reference point.