Not quite the major project that the title may suggest. Having become partially disabled due to a stroke in 2002, my mechanicking projects have become smaller and lighter, nowadays mainly restoring model steam engines. I persuaded my wife to buy me a small model-maker's lathe as a Christmas present which needs mounting and a motor connecting to it. I recently purchased a "rescued" treadmill motor. This is not too large is a dc permanent magnet motor rated at 4000 rpm at 180volts dc and 4 amps max current (which, very approximately equates to an input powe of nearly 1 hp, thus probably about 3/4 hp at the output shaft. I am planning to make a "dexion" frame to mount this on, at a height suitable for working on from a seated position. I have chosen pulleys which will give a lathe speed of about 3100 rpm with the motor at 4000 rpm and I am building an electronic speed controller (I am a retired electronics engineer, so that is the easy part for me). The difficult part is working out where to put everything such that is readily accesible, to make electrical connections and mechanical fixings. The whole assembly will probably be clad with mdf, creating storage space for associated tools, etc. Hopefully it will be completed before this Christmas!