yep the weights got me a bit worried but it's going into a workshop with garage doors so I'm good on the entrance.
It's a concrete slab so I should be ok there as well.
I did find a couple of guys who went with this lathe and they seem extremely happy, it's a step up (at least cost wise) in the Grizzly gunsmith line from the 4003G, and almost all those people who have them are very happy so I think it's a safe bet.
That's funny right there. A real lathe setup should have an isolated slab for itself. The owners manual for my lathe recommends cutting a hole in the slab a little bigger than the lathe footprint and pouring a new slab, 2' thick with an expansion joint around it!
My shop has 4000 # concrete 12" thick. I couldn't do separate slabs as I didn't know the layout at the time.
Jeff- that is an awesome machine you scored. My uncle bought one I found for him last year and it is mine when he gets to where he can't use it anymore(he is 85). My Nardini, meanwhile, does pretty good work.
