Moving a Bridgeport into the Basement

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Divided he ad:
Well Bernd I'll just say you appear to be having a lot of fun with you labour of love!!! :thumbup:

That certainly is a beast of a machine!!!

I look forward to your pic's of the cleaning and re-build.... That will be interesting without the dumper to lift the heavy bits eh?!

What's the fix??? ...... You trying to keep me riveted? :D

Is the delay due to the completion of a ball turning devise or just other stuff in general? ;)

Thanks for the step by step...... it makes me quite glad we do not generally have basements here, even thought I'd love all that space!!! ;D

Ralph.

Bernd:
I've found out that a Bridgeport weighs between 1800 to 2200 pounds. I believe the heaviest part is the column. So as far as being a beast, I think it's one of the smaller beasts. Had I bought a larger mill I probably would have left it in the garage. I originally had thought of building a wood/metal workshop in back of our house but gave up on that idea. Believe me. I would not want to do this on a daily bases. Then it won't be any fun, it would be "work".

There's lots of cleaning to be done and only one rebuilt. The crank handle for up/down movement of the knee apparently sustained damage some time before I got the mill. The handle had been welded and I broke it just by cranking. The shaft that it fit's on is bent. I think that the handle got caught during one of the machines move. I need to fix that. Other than that it'll just be a clean up, unless I find more damage as I clean the parts. I'll post picks when I get "round-to-it".

Oh ya, the ball turner almost forgot. I better finish that. I might need to make a ball or two. :thumbup:

You'd love a basement such as mine. If I remember right you have a very small shop in it's own un-heated building. Kind of like Bogs. Right? See the nice thing about a basement is that it's warm in winter and cool in the heat of summer. ;D

I have some other projects that need finishing before I get to putting the mill back together again, but will start a new thread when I do.

Bernd

Divided he ad:
Good to know you are keeping busy ;D

Bog's workshop is twice the size of mine and has a storage unit on the back of it!!! I just pack everything in and hope I can use it :thumbup:

If your basement were like a frezzer I'd still use it at that size.... I can and do machine in a few jumpers and a coat!!! :-\

Projects.... That sounds like another thread or two???

Good luck with your challenge,

Rlalph.

Brass_Machine:
Wow. I gotta say that is impressive to me. That first picture of the mill at the top of the stairs... imposing.

How many hours do you have in the move?

Eric

Bernd:

--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on October 23, 2008, 10:16:02 AM ---Wow. I gotta say that is impressive to me. That first picture of the mill at the top of the stairs... imposing.

How many hours do you have in the move?

Eric

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Ya, that is a bit imposing, but when you know it's chained down and not going anywere, you hope, it's not that imposing. ;D

Hard to say. It took a while to figure out how I was going to do something and getting set up. I'm going to guess-timate here and say 16 hours from the time I got her loaded on the truck to the time the last part was in the basement. Might have been a tad longer, but that's what I figure.

After I had every thing in the basement I came up with more and faster ways of doing it. "IF" I ever get a newer model I won't take quite so long. :bugeye: ;D

Bernd

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