Muscle Needed 11/24/18

[weejub]

1200 lbs?

Would a Uhaul hand truck for $7 work given part is already on the dolly - capacity of 800 lbs. Slide it in - - leverage just enough to move it a bit at a time.

I don know fysics much tho . . . might break it.

 

[Green Hell Mustang]

Unfortunately no. Soft in the middle, hard outer crust.

Little in the middle but she got much back.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

1200 lbs?

Would a Uhaul hand truck for $7 work given part is already on the dolly - capacity of 800 lbs. Slide it in - - leverage just enough to move it a bit at a time.

I don know fysics much tho . . . might break it.

Machine weighs about 2500#, a bit more with the accessories on it. 1250# would just be the half I can get my hands around if I were to try to deadlift it. This thing is nearly 8' long.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Im slippin like im surrounded by that 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant that @JohnVee posted up in the amazon has everything thread.

I was going to suggest hammerdrilling into the garage concrete and bolting something in that a snatch block could attach to, and winch it into place. But thats not the most practical thing

should I change the title to "people needed for slip and slide" ?

Putting a winch point in the floor isn't a bad idea, but dragging it like this damages the concrete quite a bit. Best to lift it and roll into position.

 

[JohnVee]

What...you've never designed a floor plan around where something difficult to move was located?

 

[lt1fire]

Im slippin like im surrounded by that 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant that @JohnVee posted up in the amazon has everything thread.

That who posted about??


PS I'm down to about 30 gallons

 

[JohnVee]

That who posted about??

I get blamed for everything now.

 

[izzyandsue]

I am late to this, but could you slide a sling under it, then use the I-beam contraption over it, and a couple of pulley blocks on it to get mechanical advantage, maybe use the truck winch to redirect and pull it up enough to lift it for the slider?

 

[izzyandsue]

Or if the rafters are exposed, a 4x4 or 6x6 across a few rafters could give you enough of a base to use a sling/pulley block combo to lift up?

 

[GLTHFJ60]

I am late to this, but could you slide a sling under it, then use the I-beam contraption over it, and a couple of pulley blocks on it to get mechanical advantage, maybe use the truck winch to redirect and pull it up enough to lift it for the slider?

Or if the rafters are exposed, a 4x4 or 6x6 across a few rafters could give you enough of a base to use a sling/pulley block combo to lift up?

Both good ideas!

1. Can't lift from the bottom. Machine is too top heavy. Have to lift from the top in a specific spot, both to balance the machine and prevent damaging it.
2. Machine weighs too much. I'd pull down the trusses in my ceiling so fast it'd look like a tree cut my garage in half

 

[SFROMAN]

you can borrow my engine lift if you need it.

I use it and my small utility trailer to move heavy stuff on my own all the time.

 

[angerhater]

I have used a 6 foot riggers prybar ( I wanna think they called it a Jensen bar) that has an elbow about 2 inches from the tip. jack each corner and put a wooden blocks under it, till you can get metal rods under it, to roll across the rods. or maybe try sliding it on plastic pucks.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

To close the loop on this, I spent some time yesterday, after getting back, boring out the cast wheels for the new bearings I bought. Bored the wheels out, and made some washers/spacers from a hunk of aluminum i had kicking around.

Ended up being too stubborn/lazy to go grab a cherry picker from Jon or Del, so I did it with floor jacks. Figured out a way to lift the machine enough to remove the broken BS that was underneath it, and support the thing with blocking until I could get the new wheels underneath. Kinda sketch with how topheavy it is, but we got er done.

Close to her new home. Didn't want to be all the way up against the wall just yet, so I can access the 'lectrics in the back. Headstock, tailstock and ways are cleaning up very nice! Scraping marks from when it was still new are still visible in large sections of the bed, which means that this thing was not too heavily used over the past ~70 years of its life!!

Also found the serial stamped in the ways. Need to locate a reference so I can date this thing:

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Thanks again to everyone who helped me pick this thing up from that guy's house!!!

 

[S4Cruiser]

Is that your garage??? LOL!

 

[cruisermatt]

So are you going to sell the other lathe or do you have room for them both?

 

[GLTHFJ60]

So are you going to sell the other lathe or do you have room for them both?

I'll be selling the rockwell once I get the leblond up and running. Now that I have a lathe, and am starting to be productive with one, it'll be hard to go without even for a few weeks, lol.

Do you want it? I'll cut you a deal.

12/4 EDIT: sale pending

 

[AJR]

Cut a deal on a sharp lathe

 

[cruisermatt]

I'll be selling the rockwell once I get the leblond up and running. Now that I have a lathe, and am starting to be productive with one, it'll be hard to go without even for a few weeks, lol.

Do you want it? I'll cut you a deal.

 

[SeanLX]

^ Yea, I need to know a little more about that Rockwell too when it’s time.