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So this project should be good enough to merit it's own thread instead of my general thread on ongoing shop improvements.
Most of what I will be machining is small steam engines, small tools, small etching press rollers, pneumatic engravers and the like so a smaller precision lathe has been on my dream machine list. I was very excited when I found a chipmaster that I could potentially buy. The sellers were retiring at 55 and were in a hurry to just unload everything so what I thought would be 4 weeks to make arrangements because "we need this gone in a few days"...
Luckily a new acquaintance made though the Hobby Machinist was able to assist me with moving and temporary storage of the lathe until I can swap machines around and sell the existing lathe... @Mingy is a very fine fellow indeed.
The seller had the lathe out and sitting on two landscaping ties ready to be picked up by their fork lift. That's always nice. I botched getting the photo of it waiting to be picked up. Im an idiot.
A little fussiness upon loading due to the lathe turning out to be 1/4" too wide to fit on the trailer with the door in place. Quickly resolved that issue by removing the door and voila... slid right in.
Loaded it so that there was some weight on the trailer tongue, and had 4 solid points of fastening to ensure a very secure load and we were road ready. We stopped a couple of kms after the start of our journey back to Brian's property to double check nothing came loose. Safety first, no one dies and no property damage is a rule I follow when making such moves.
Back at Brian's the lathe was off loaded by his tractor with forks... set unto a pallet just inside the door of his shop, and then wheeled back into the shop proper on a pallet truck.
Sadly, the lathe is not all original. I noted that the tail stock had a different serial number (G3915) than the rest of the components, which was G4024 making the year of manufacture 1967 for the lathe and 1966 for the tail stock. I'd love to know the story.
Most of what I will be machining is small steam engines, small tools, small etching press rollers, pneumatic engravers and the like so a smaller precision lathe has been on my dream machine list. I was very excited when I found a chipmaster that I could potentially buy. The sellers were retiring at 55 and were in a hurry to just unload everything so what I thought would be 4 weeks to make arrangements because "we need this gone in a few days"...
Luckily a new acquaintance made though the Hobby Machinist was able to assist me with moving and temporary storage of the lathe until I can swap machines around and sell the existing lathe... @Mingy is a very fine fellow indeed.
The seller had the lathe out and sitting on two landscaping ties ready to be picked up by their fork lift. That's always nice. I botched getting the photo of it waiting to be picked up. Im an idiot.
A little fussiness upon loading due to the lathe turning out to be 1/4" too wide to fit on the trailer with the door in place. Quickly resolved that issue by removing the door and voila... slid right in.
Loaded it so that there was some weight on the trailer tongue, and had 4 solid points of fastening to ensure a very secure load and we were road ready. We stopped a couple of kms after the start of our journey back to Brian's property to double check nothing came loose. Safety first, no one dies and no property damage is a rule I follow when making such moves.
Back at Brian's the lathe was off loaded by his tractor with forks... set unto a pallet just inside the door of his shop, and then wheeled back into the shop proper on a pallet truck.
Sadly, the lathe is not all original. I noted that the tail stock had a different serial number (G3915) than the rest of the components, which was G4024 making the year of manufacture 1967 for the lathe and 1966 for the tail stock. I'd love to know the story.
