Re: Table Construction

A professional machinist (job-shop owner) helped me "set down" my new

> Bridgeport 15 years back, and in the conversation as we worked, he

said he had

> NO idea why BP cast-in drilled bosses for mouting-bolts in the

heavy cast-iron

> machine-base, as in all the 30 years HIS machine-shop had been in

business

> with dozens of mills and lathes, he had NEVER found a situation

where bolting a

> machine to the concrete floor was necessary!
>

Guess he never ran his shop from a ship in high seas !

I'm not sure of the local regs, but in Fla, you have to strap down
your mobile home for hurrricanes and in LA you have to strap down
your water heater for eatrhquakes.

short of those problems, I can't remember seeing one bolted down
either.

Dave