Thanks for putting this thread up MonkMan. I thought I would add to it and hope you don't mind.
Christmas came early for me too. I received my stand earlier this week. I've had the lathe in hand for a few weeks and had to wait for the stand. Glad I did plus I had some extra help around for the holidays.
Here it is at FEDEX Freight as I picked it up. As usual, a great job of crating for shipment up by Matt and QMT:
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It was packaged very well inside the crate and unscathed by the trip. Here's the headstock end pedestal with the revised design of four levelers and the thicker material. The plate for the walls is 4 mm thick and the bars for the levellers are 9 mm plate. These pedestals are plenty rigid and nicely fabricated. I put the leveling screws in from the bottom and will use them this way temporarily until I decide what to do for the feet. Just a heads up, turns out the threads for the leveling screws are an old Whitworth thread at 1/2" x 12 tpi instead of 13 tpi. If you decide you want to use Te-Co feet or something like that, just know you will have to chase the threads to 1/2" x 13 tpi. I am likely to machine some pucks for the supplied leveling screws to ride in. I will flip the screws over as intended and let the screw tips ride in a machined puck of Delrin or something like that. My son has a Sharp and a Haas that both have this sort of puck arrangement (cast iron pucks) under the leveling screws and it works very well.
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Here it is cobbled together and ready to set the lathe on it. It fit together very nicely and the screws/nuts for the stretcher plate are good quality and not your typical Asian fasteners. The fit was excellent and it was fast to get it together.
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Here she sits in the final spot with the lathe on it.
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In summary, this is a "top shelf" stand. The supplied hardware is very good and paint is good as well. The stand is very well fabricated and the material thicknesses used make it quite substantial and up to the task. The doors are well made and functional with the latches serving well for this service. You do have to bend/fit the latch bars to install them so don't be reluctant to do it. The stand provides a little storage which is always appreciated. I'm am glad that I ended up with the new revised stand and can easily recommend it. I suspect it is going to be rock solid and I am quite pleased with it. Thanks again to QMT for providing great customer service and a great product.