7 Mar
2012
7 Mar
'12
10:06 p.m.
On 03/08/2012 12:58 AM, Pontus wrote:
That sort of stuff is movable. One trick a machinist friend of mine
did to move a big Bridgeport mill is to get it up onto a few small
pieces of thin steel rod, like 1/4" or less. By what mechanism he got
it up onto them I don't know. But then he'd just roll the monstrosity
across the floor, moving one around to the front when it popped out the
back. A common implement in those circles is called, I believe, a
"Johnson bar" which is sorta like a handtruck but with FAR greater
leverage and small steel wheels with an immense weight rating.
Those guys know the tools of their craft every bit as well as we know
ours. :)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I've moved
hundreds of H960's and learned a lot of tricks- mostly
good. I could 2 on the floor of my van and a 3ed on top.
Anybody else on here ever move an 11/70 in a corporate cab down
several flights of stairs in a commercial building? Remember, they
don't come apart- CPU, memory, expansion all in one.
holy... I've moved one.. but never down a flight of stairs, where there
casualties?
Although, we are all amateurs compared to the fellas with CNC machinery
in their garage. Admittedly no-one probably ever moved a CNC mill up a
flight of residential stairs...