Absolutely, you can make an 8 x 10 enlarger out of this but you don't need to use the stand. It might not be steady enough anyway for fine focusing. I converted my Kodak 2D 8 x 10 into a horizontal enlarger and it works great. I made a little table base that projects out from my darkroom counter with a drop down front. Get a cold light head (push it up against the ground glass, cut the septum out of an old wooden film holder to use as your negative holder, and you're good to go. I primiarly use a 300 MM Rodenstock lens for most of my work but also have a 240 MM Nikor when I need to blow things up and regularily enlarge up to 16 x 20. Note that too large of a lens will put the enlarger too far away from your focusing board/easel and make sharp focusing real difficult. You won't be able to look through your focusing scope and reach the enlarger to adjust it at the same time.
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