Would YOU put a small mill and lathe on casters?

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that combo lathe, and it was the only one I have ever seen that was of that size, and with the mill being outboard of the headstock. I suspect it might have been a special model built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, for use on ships. It was ideally suited for shipboard use the ship was built by them in Japan, and just about everything in it was also built by Mitsubishi.

I have spent a bit of time googling mitsubishi lathes and various other questions, but cant find an answer.
 
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Here is how it ended up. Like I said, I used two 1/2" anchor bolts at the bottom of the PM stand. I left plenty of room to walk behind the mill and I store my welding carts back there.

The power feed added some width in the x axis, which I had planned for.

So the mill has plenty of room. This came at a cost of moving one of my work benches outside. I wanted to take my grinding outside anyway.

As it is installed, the milling machine vibrates a great deal while in use. I may upgrade to four 1/2" anchor bolts later.

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