The original stand that came with the lathe was ready to collapse on the floor.
A few dodgy welds were ready to break, and generally it was a pretty basic affair.

I could have beefed up the stand, but was not really happy with it’s general construction and lack of storage for my limited workshop area.

I liked the idea of using a spanning box section to support the lathe I found from this site: users.picknowl.com.au/~gloaming_agnet/cq9325rev4.html.
This allows a clear area beneath the lathe for a chip tray and generally easier cleaning up of chips and swarf.

I had some left over 75mm x 50mm RHS which I stitched together to create a 150mm x 50mm beam.
More steel was purloined from a treadmill I sacrificed for my DC motor conversion, and other various scraps lying about.
You can recognise the treadmill’s uprights as the stylish curved front legs on the new stand :-).

The stand cost a grand total of $10 to build, and that was just for the plastic tube closers at the ends. I was too lazy to attempt closing them up by welding, and more likely to make a mess by burning holes!

The drawers run on ball bearing slides which I’ve had for a “could be handy someday” while. The base of which are some old metal shelves from a computer rack. I knocked up some plywood sides to form the deeper drawer, and pimped the front with some aluminium propellor plate that was likewise just waiting for something to do.

The bottom shelf was the treadmill’s platform, some heavy MDF style material.
The other shelves were a bit of formply I had lying about.

All in all I’m very happy with how it all turned out. I certainly find having the drawers there is real handy for the centres, drill chuck etc.