Well, the Denford arrived yesterday. I had a local guy wiht a HIAB bring it to the house and dump it as far down the drive as the HIAB would reach. Cost me £50 for about 15 minutes work, but was worth the money. It then took my brother and I another two hours to move it the remaining twenty foot into the shed.
Main problem was due to the drive being around a foot higher than the shed floor.
So we had to make a gently sloping 'roadway' of six inch concrete blocks before we could use the pallet truck I had borrowed from my daughter's works to (very slowly and carefully) ease the machine down. We tied the lathe to the front of brothers car and used that to ensure that it didn't get away from us.
Having placed it in it's new home I had a good look at it. I hadn't seen it for months. Sadly the people who took it over after it's original machinist retired didn't look after it at all. It was simply placed on a pallet and left in a damp storage room.
Both chucks are rusty. and so was the tail stock end of the bedway. Fortunately, in a twisted sense, they had left the tray full of sud oil. They also left lots of the tooling in the tray. So it was all slimy and wet. But not too damaged.
But it will rise, Phoenix like from the ashes of it's neglect.
Tony, the guy who used to cherish it, would have wept at the sight.
All I need need now is a rotary convertor (the plate says 1.5 Amp at 415 Volt). But that will have to wait a while. The wife want to go for a week in Greece. And I can hardly refuse now.
Dave,