Started with an old medical imaging cart:
Sucker is big, heavy and industrial grade built.has a welded square tube "skeleton" inside it and the tops are about 1/8 plate.
How it currently sits after a bit of chopping and welding:
I added 1/4 plate "backers" under the table top where the feet bolt through and tied the plates together with welded square tube. Tried to shim the lathe for "twist", but none was evident. In all fairness, I wasn't using a machinists level so it may not be "perfect" yet.
Still to come is modular storage inside and a tool pedestal. Right now my tooling is just sitting on the cabinet bottom plate, but concept is for ball bearing slides and drawers/shelves behind the black lexan doors.
All the lathe electronics (ie: cycletrol 150, power bar, power switch, leadscrew speed controller, etc) will be inside the cabinet as well. Only the pots and switches will be outside the protection of the cabinet.
Obviously, it still a project in the works. Paint and finishing to follow...