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Bridgeport movable frame with castors

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Stilldrillin:
Nicely/ neatly done Mick!  :clap: :clap: :thumbup:

David D

micktoon:
Hi Lads thanks for the comments, I am trying to have as many things as possible on wheels / castors as sick of having to move things and the more ackward something is to move seems to equal the more often it will need to be moved lol.
  I already had those castors Porker , I spotted them at the scrap yard on some big old fram , probably from the shipyards, I tried to look up the loads rating but could not find it , they are 5 inch cast wheels with very hard low profile rubber tyres, probably not the idea ones if you asked at a castor suppliers but I wont be doing too many miles I hope.
  Oz , as a rule Otto never stops still long enough to fit the castors to him, that was a rare moment of boredom in between bringing his ball or bugging me to take him for a walk, he is 12 years old but still has plenty energy.
  My next plan is to fit two small wheels that just miss the ground to the rear of a few things and then have a hitch type locator on the front that a 'wheeled crow bar' type invention can jack the item slightly so it will pull along on the rear wheels  :smart: still thinking about how to do it at the moment.

 I think a similar type frame I have made for the bridgeport would work great on a smaller mill as you could wheel it about on your own, so you really could just wheel it out , level it when needed and return it out the way when not getting used.

 Cheers Mick.

John Stevenson:
I think that's brilliant putting a Bridgy on castors.

Makes it far easier to wheel to the scrap yard.  :poke:

vtsteam:
Very nice, Mick, nicely done, and nicely finished off, as usual.  :clap: :clap: :beer:

krv3000:
well dune mick

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