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Moving a Bridgeport into the Basement

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Bernd:
Yes John I understand fully. I've noticed that the Brits have very small shops and arre usally in a seprate building behind or next to the house. But I must say that some of the best modeling comes out of those small shops. I don't think it's that ingenius, but thanks for the compliment. I've learned by observation and then trying. So far it's worked pretty good.

Yes Darren I've done it all myself. It's nothing more than physics and geometry, neither of which I ever studied by the way. Ya, that' 2300 square feet of basement on 6 acers of land. I don't think you'd want to pay the taxes assesed. :bugeye:  By the way, that Bridgy cost me $3500 American. It does have a digital readout and power feed table.

CrewCab, that shaft isn't bent all the way. It was bent just at the front. Had to cut off a little more than 2 inches to get to the screws that held on the dial. That's the next project is to just fix the end of the shaft. I've got an idea already of how I want to fix it and will put up a seperate thread explaining how I did it.

Bernd

Bernd:
Ok, this will be the last installment of my Bridgeport adventure. The machine is ready to be used. A few minor items need to be finished but that's about it. I still need to move it into it's permanent position.


Here the cross slide has be installed, the gib put in place and now I'm installing the lead screw. Not much to it.


Next is the table. Everything looks tipped to the left, that's the camera angle. Held the camera a bit crooked. Although the table is up in the air at one end.


Ok, the table is on and the gib is in place. It's ready for the lead screw and power feed.


And there we have it. The table is complete and the power feed works.


The DRO is installed, hooked up and working. Now I'm ready for a bit of serious tool building. The models are going to have to wait a while.

Other than a few odds and ends that need cleaning up I'm ready to use the machine. It was a lot of fun seeing if I could move a machine of this size from the place I purchased it to the basement. I did it without any injury to myself. No animals were hurt either. :D

Bernd

bogstandard:
You can stop sweating now Bernd, the hard bit has been done, and if I must say so, very professionally as well.

Did you ever get the bent knee shaft sorted?

It must be wonderful to have the room you have, there is real space envy showing coming on here. By the time I get everything into my shop, if I put something in my pocket, I will have difficulty moving about (that might also be because of my size).

John

Brass_Machine:
Nice job Bernd.  :bow:

Outside of the drillpress and mill have you ever done a move like that before? Lots of planning and ingenuity went into that. Very well done.

Eric

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Darren:
Normally I'd have thought that was too big a job for one man.

Bernd, you have shown us otherwise along with some very handy ways to tackle each step.

Well done  :clap:

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