Routing Power To Lathe In Center Of Room

I know very little about electrical. But what is a raceway?

Edit- seems like its just either conduit or a form of conduit.
 
A post fixed at the ends would be a secure way to run the wire, but if the lathe requires less than 20 amps I'd be tempted to simply mount a 220v 20 amp spade terminal box on the ceiling and let the cord hang. If it gets bumped or snagged it simply unplugs, no harm done.

Greg
 
The lathe will be on a 20 amp 220v single phase connection. Hanging the cable seems to be the quickets and easiest way. None of this is permanent. Im going to be building a good size shop in my back yard with the next year. Where everything will be built how i want it.
 
I mounted a piece of plywood to uprights attached to the back of my lathe that my electrical and air are mounted to.

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plug it in when you use it, unplug it when done
 
When I built my shop I installed 110 outlets in the ceiling in addition to along the walls.

And I installed 220V outlets in the ceiling with boxes to allow placing conduit at a later date.

One of the lathes is under a 220V box, I dropped 3/4 conduit from a junction box down to a disconnect box on the back of the lathe stand and pulled wire.

You will learn to hate a cord and plug.
 
If you are dropping a cord with a receptacle to plug in your lathe. Then you should drop a chain or steel wire cable also for strain relief.
 
I did basically the same thing in my shop. All of my plugs are L14-30 and wired for 120/240 volts, so that way I can run both 120 volt accessories as well as 240 volt equipment without having to hook up power xformer at each machine.DSCN3125.JPG DSCN3126.JPG
 
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