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  1. #1
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    Default Moving a Mill - How to scare yourself senseless

    Well the day arrived and at 2pm the truck pulls up with my newly acquiried mill. My advice of limited access (2.5m) was ignored and I had a 12tonne truck with zero chance of getting into the backyard was the delivery. So much for the assurance that they would use a smaller truck.

    So 1 1/2hrs later I had the mill sitting up the side of the house on the grass and a trash front lawn due to the weight of the truck on the (finally) wet ground. An hour later and I was yakking to a neighbour who moves safes for a living.

    Damned I wish I had a camera. Col (my neighbour) was a champion and with a pry bar, bits of wood and sheets of ply we had the mill moving and out of the side access to he could bring his truck up and sideload the mill. Well you haven't seen anthing more precarious than a 1000kg mill on a narrow pallet jack on sheets of ply on normal lawn. I was crapping myself, a mate who was helping balance the other side was crapping himself and poor old Col - well I think he was wishing he was home having a beer.

    Not sure what we could have done of the thing had lost balance....way too heavy to do anything about once it gets past its balance point.

    So finally we get it out of the way, load it onto his nice litle truck with the Hyab and then 15mins later its in the shed hopefully in its new home location.

    Plugged it in and all is well. I need another drawbar to suit some of the chucks but everything has survived the move.
    Cheers

    Craig
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    Wow....sounds like a very stressful afternoon Hux!!! Glad you got it in your shed ok. You lucky you had some nice neighbours to help you.

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    Default me too

    I no what you mean look familiar[ATTACH]Attachment 47905[/ATTACH] bloody heavy

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    Been around for a few moves of big stuff like that being moved catch as catch can (no pun intended). Always came out well as I think fear makes one very circumspect about it all in the process. I tend to think that we have always been lucky . Them folks might not have all the "right stuff" but they sure knew what they were doing and dealing with. Machinist are like that .

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    Nice one Kats. Got it fired up yet? Mines running but not cut any chips yet - have to source some 5/8th clamp bolts to hold thing down on Monday. Made a new draw bar today (took 10mins) so all is good - now have metric and imperial draw bars to suit my various chucks.

    Now I have a lathe to move as well...fortunately that should be heaps easier than the mill being 1/2 the weight and long not high.
    Cheers

    Craig
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    No not yet wont to tide the mill up befor i start to relie use it or it will never get done it is in the shed that was a job in it self

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    Default Glad everyone os OK

    Thats good news fellas

    Its good to hear that everyone came through their respective moves with all body parts and their Ironwork intact.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Thats good news fellas

    Its good to hear that everyone came through their respective moves with all body parts and their Ironwork intact.

    Grahame
    Nightshift and the long weekend is killing me. I was knackered on Sat and hit the bed early and work up at 12 so no chance to get to anywhere and buy some clamping devices so it will be Tuesday PM before I can get to either H&F or the like and get something.

    Hard to make first chips when you can't secure the job!!

    BTW I bought a 12x36 lathe last night - advertised in the weekend shopper. Will have to pick it up later in the week. Its a Taiwanese built lathe but belt drive with a Norton screw cutting gearbox - to some extent it looks like an overisized Myford 7. Quite a nicely finished machine in excellent condition - somewhere around 10yrs old. It seemed pretty good value for $1500 which means heaps of $$ left over for tooling.

    All your talk of Chinese quality control had me scared off when I saw this advertised I scooted over first opportunity.
    Cheers

    Craig
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    Wow...2 new toys in a week!!! You are doing well....

    We will be expecting some nice pics of the new machine Hux.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sterob View Post
    Wow...2 new toys in a week!!! You are doing well....

    We will be expecting some nice pics of the new machine Hux.

    Yep lucky boy but you have to sieze the opportunity when they present. I have spent significantly less than what I had planned by buying used but have ended up with a real mill not a mill drill and Taiwanese not Chicom. The lathe has cost me less than half what a AL335 would have cost and the 10+ year old paint work is in better condition than GC's new lathe Sorry Grahame

    Forgot to snap some shots with the camera phone while I was there.
    The problem with nightwork and lack of sleep.....I checked the machine reasonably well but things I forgot to check were:
    spindle type - camlock or thread.
    tail stock taper - MT2 or 3.
    motor HP

    However,
    Measured the spindle bore at 36mm (roughly).
    The bed is 1200mm long excluding the tail stock and is 920mm between centres.
    Centre height is 150mm
    Has a standard tool post.
    3 & 4 jaw chucks face plate, live and dead centres and new unused change gears
    Beds are unmarked.
    The light swarf in the bed is all brass (was making custom bullets of some description).
    Oil in sight glass looks fresh and evidence of regular oiling on ways etc.
    Owner is wealthy (you should have seen his cars - 2 vettes (1 is a 454 LS6 ), a GTP and an absolutely immaculately restored XY 4x4 ute ) and everything in his garage was immaculate.
    Cheers

    Craig
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