Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] I think somebofy got a STEAL on a Monarch 16 x

If you really insist on having the machine on skids, I'd recommend replacint
the wood skids with steel "H" beams.
You'd have the same easy to move capability and shouldn't lose anything in
the way of accuracy if you nstall some leveling bolts in the steel beams.

Alvey Conveyor (I used to work for them in St. Louis) always built their
pallet loading machines on skids. Made it really easy to move the machine
around...even if moving meant pushing on the skids with a fork lift truck.

Smoke
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From: stratton@... <stratton@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] I think somebofy got a STEAL on a Monarch 16
x

>>
>> > Perhaps you can ask a local machine supplier who would lend his low
>> > profile dollies. If not: I moved a few month ago a 4 ton injection

press

>> > using
>> > a few 1 1/2 1020 bars under some c profiles that made the bottom flat
>> > it worked fine except that I damaged the shop floor with the pry bar.
>>
>> I used this to move my Bridgeport. The problem with lathes is they
>> usually have 2 relatively small 'feet' at each end of the bed, and you

need to

>> be really careful with the rollers, to make sure there are always at

least one

>> under each foot.
>>
>
>My 13" South Bend came from the dealer on 4x4 timber skids, bolted to
>the feet. The've not come off the machine since I bought it, and
>given that it tends to get moved yearly the lost accuracy due to
>inability to level it perfectly/consistently has been made up for in
>the ease of moving. We jack it up and use rollers under the timbers
>for moving it around the shop, or put a 3/4" axle under the balance
>point and some 8" plastic wheels, balance it by moving the carriage,
>then grab the tailstock end and push it around like a wheelbarrow.
>
>It shouldn't take much ingenuity to lift a lathe 4-6 inches and put it
>on skids.
>
>Chris
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