Trens Sn32 Lathe ...

First saw this one on Craigs list a month or so ago and sent the guy a message and never heard back. Last week I got a call from him and he asked me if I was still interested. Seems he was in the process of moving and just didn't follow up. Well when I first saw the ad I thought, that lathe and I were destined to be united. So the day after he called I made the three hour drive and checked it out and made an offer and gave him a down payment. Drove down with the truck and the trailer yesterday to pick it up. When I bought it he said he would have a wrecker come over and lift it and I could back the trailer under it. Got down there and after five calls he couldn't get anyone to come that day. I had just rigged up the trailer with a winch to load a used 500 gal propane tank I had purchased, so not wanting to spend the night I decided to give it a try. Took are time jacking it up (3400 lbs and really top-heavy and prone to tip) 1/2" at a time and blocking with pieces of OSB until it was high enough to slide the the trailer ramps under the base ( base is cast and solidly attached to the lathe), solid blocked under the back of the trailer hooked the cable around the bottom of the base and hit the button and up she slid, no issues. Before I left he said he had 15 calls right after he had reissued the ad. Glad I jumped on it. A few pics of the loading, will post some more once it's off the trailer. Thanks for looking. Mike

Here you see me easily lifting the the beast onto the trailer , and safe at home.

Gunrunner you need to order a set of these for the Z axis hand crank. Bill did you just spit coffee on your monitor? :rofl:

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....you just need to photoshop out that winch cable

Congrats on your new find!
-brino

If you had about 6 pieces of 1" pipe or solids it would have rolled wherever you wanted it to go even makes turning easier. I've moved lots of mills and lathes around that way even unloaded my first Bridgeport out of the back of my dodge truck that way by myself. I dug holes to lower the bed s low to the ground as I could . It slanted the truck just enough to have gravity help used a come along to pull and to let it slowly off . Scary but worked like a dream I just put the pipes as rollers and reset as they got close to running off . hence the six rollers . Try it a pry bar and pipes can move the heavy machines easily

I've moved things like that for more years than I care to remember, this one had to come up about 2 1/2' to meet the top of the ramps. Once it was on the ramps, moving it forward was really a non issue with the winch. Took it off the trailer with my backhoe (It weighs 22k) . Even with power steering and the rpm cranked up had to be moving to get the front wheels to turn. Used a jack and a long pry-bar to scoot it around once it was on the concrete shop floor. Have some new pics of it in it's new temporary home. Will post after the fog from celebrating my sons 29th birthday has evaporated. Cheers, Mike

Here are a few pics of the unloading, and a few shots of it in place. I was going to store this out of sight up in one of my storage spaces next door and leave it until next year when the new shop area will be complete, but found room in my existing shop area. Definitely not at the top of my list this year, but going to try and get it cleaned up, possibly painted, and wired up and running in the next month or two. This thing is definitely a beast, the machine weight is 1650kg or for the metrically challenged like me 3630 lbs dry (has three lube reservoirs + large flood coolant system with a BIG pump) and without chuck or tooling. The spindle thru hole is 2.25" and the longitudinal lead screw for the carriage is 1.5 inches in diameter. Swing over the bed is 14", and with the gap section removed is 22", 40" bed length. Motor is 5 hp 3ph with a soft start function which can also be setup for an almost instantaneous stop. The spindle is clutched and is driven by 4 V-blts from the motor, 16 speeds from 14-2500 rpm, metric and inch threading. The chip & coolant pans along with the rear splash guard are still in the truck and also need a good cleaning. Overall it seems to be in very good shape and ran very smoothly when I checked it out. Came with a 3 jaw Poland chuck, qctp, a second D1-6 chuck mount, center and steady rests, a live center, and a Albrecht keyless chuck, and a two axis dro. I think I'm going to really enjoy this machine. Thanks for looking, Mike