Bench-top Lathe Motor Mounts

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Greetings,

I recently received and fixed up an old craftsman and was looking for ideas for mounting the motor.... is tehre a preferred method ?
 
From the experience of the lathe I now have, try to sound insulate the motor from the base. When the motor hums, the bench rattles. I'd prefer not to hear it.
 
I am assuming that your old Craftsman lathe was made by Atlas. There were a couple of different ways the countershaft and motor were mounted, i.e. vertical and horizontal. See:

http://www.lathes.co.uk/atlas/

Your headstock may dictate which you have to use.
 
I sort of wish my lathe was an Atlas... I believe it is AA. (109.20630). That being said I see a lot of people putting their motor on a hinge of some type to let the motor weight keep the belt engaged. The counter-shafts I see on the bigger lathes look more elegant, but I assume that is an hunt online for one as I have never seen anything like them for sale.
 
I think that putting a tensioner rod would be better than just having the the motor sort of flapping around. More rigidity, especially in a small lathe.

vintagemachinery.org has the manual for a variant of your lathe here:

http://www.vintagemachinery.org/pubs/222/6603.pdf

Most Craftsman bench top lathes used a countershaft with a cone pulley. Our local tractor store sells cone pulleys and you could either buy or assemble a shaft between two pillow blocks for a countershaft. You'd also need a pulley to "take" the power from the motor pulley. Still a fairly easy thing to make and really shouldn't require much if any machining.
 
Thanks Charles! That PDF is better than the one I had already... clearer and has more detail.
 
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