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Well, I've been waiting until the mill was in place before posting. This has been a tough summer getting everything set up in our double car garage. Since spring, in went:
12x36 inch King Industrial (Chinese) lathe, complete with it's own little cubby hole under my garage shelves...the cubby hole wall storage unit I built for all of it's bits and pieces. It's off to the left in the first pic.
A 45000 BTU Sterling natural gas garage heater.
An 8 ft x 38" welding bench with 1/4" plate metal top.
A new insulated garage door and new door opener.
Two, 8 foot double fluorescent commercial sign light fixtures (any surgeon would be proud to operate in there now !)
A 230 volt, 60 amp pony panel, conduit, etc, with plenty of outlets for all the toys.
I built 2 angle iron and expanded metal shelves 4 ft by 1 ft to put all my heavy stuff on. I put a piece of 4x8 3/4" plywood directly onto the wall, then lagged the shelves to it.
And now, FINALLY, a Craftex (Busy Bee) B048 vertical mill, with a tilting and swiveling head and most of the tooling I think I'll need for a while. Yes, the bank account is on life support !!!! LOL !!!! The Mrs asked me how much the mill cost tonight. I didn't answer her.
This is going to make winter a lot more tolerable around here. Being this far north (Edmonton Alberta), aside from work, I tend to be kind of house bound when it's blistering cold outside. -40C is bloody cold no matter how you dress !
Anyway, here's a few pics.
The mill making it's entrance. I decided, rather than Mickey Mouse around with 1200 lbs of iron, I'd call in a few favors. It's always nice to have friends with access to a picker crane with a 1500 lbs load capacity out to 22 ft. We took it out of the truck with the crane...set it on a pallet jack (pump truck) and wheeled it in....then lifted it off that with an engine crane. It went very smooth actually.
The electrical going in.
The new door which makes all the difference in the world when it comes to keeping the heat in. I didn't think the 35 year old wooden one was going to cut it.
The lathe with the 4 ft fluorescent light I put over it turned on. You can also see the wheels I put under it. There's 8, 880lb load capacity casters under there, and the frames are 5/8" plate. I did it so I could pull it out of it's spot if I needed to have a piece extended through and out the other end of the head stock. No problems with vibration that I've detected. Space is at a premium in here, so it was a necessary evil. The only thing Mrs Blacksmithden asks is that her mini-van still fits in for winter, which it does.
Ok guys...that's about it in a nut shell.
12x36 inch King Industrial (Chinese) lathe, complete with it's own little cubby hole under my garage shelves...the cubby hole wall storage unit I built for all of it's bits and pieces. It's off to the left in the first pic.
A 45000 BTU Sterling natural gas garage heater.
An 8 ft x 38" welding bench with 1/4" plate metal top.
A new insulated garage door and new door opener.
Two, 8 foot double fluorescent commercial sign light fixtures (any surgeon would be proud to operate in there now !)
A 230 volt, 60 amp pony panel, conduit, etc, with plenty of outlets for all the toys.
I built 2 angle iron and expanded metal shelves 4 ft by 1 ft to put all my heavy stuff on. I put a piece of 4x8 3/4" plywood directly onto the wall, then lagged the shelves to it.
And now, FINALLY, a Craftex (Busy Bee) B048 vertical mill, with a tilting and swiveling head and most of the tooling I think I'll need for a while. Yes, the bank account is on life support !!!! LOL !!!! The Mrs asked me how much the mill cost tonight. I didn't answer her.
This is going to make winter a lot more tolerable around here. Being this far north (Edmonton Alberta), aside from work, I tend to be kind of house bound when it's blistering cold outside. -40C is bloody cold no matter how you dress !Anyway, here's a few pics.
The mill making it's entrance. I decided, rather than Mickey Mouse around with 1200 lbs of iron, I'd call in a few favors. It's always nice to have friends with access to a picker crane with a 1500 lbs load capacity out to 22 ft.
We took it out of the truck with the crane...set it on a pallet jack (pump truck) and wheeled it in....then lifted it off that with an engine crane. It went very smooth actually.The electrical going in.
The new door which makes all the difference in the world when it comes to keeping the heat in. I didn't think the 35 year old wooden one was going to cut it.
The lathe with the 4 ft fluorescent light I put over it turned on. You can also see the wheels I put under it. There's 8, 880lb load capacity casters under there, and the frames are 5/8" plate. I did it so I could pull it out of it's spot if I needed to have a piece extended through and out the other end of the head stock. No problems with vibration that I've detected. Space is at a premium in here, so it was a necessary evil. The only thing Mrs Blacksmithden asks is that her mini-van still fits in for winter, which it does.
Ok guys...that's about it in a nut shell.
