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« on: March 07, 2013, 11:47:20 AM »
 well i might be getting another lathe this time a bit bigger, if all goes well in trade i will be getting a south bend 17x60 , not as big as i want but its a step up in building, if I do end up with the lathe i will post pics of lathe and how we move it into the barn as i have already decided that i have to take a wall down to slide lathe in barn as it weights 5000lbs   it will be an adventure. i will go from scale guns to full field howitzers.   


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Re: lathe
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2013, 01:15:55 PM »
OH GOODY!!! a bigger lathe.....  8)  Hey Rick it's still too small..... you need one with a 6' swing.....
I am starting a small adventure myself.... Just won a new gun drill .948 x 17" so I guess once I have set up coolant I can make some 95 cal cannon barrels  ;D
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Re: lathe
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 02:34:22 PM »
What kind of barn is it?  I have a pole barn that was built over a 56' mobile home...  it had been there a long time.  I had to reduce it to a deck.  I opened the end of the barn (thankfully no poles in the way), fixed the tires, got it outside, turned it around between the trees & pulled it 500 feet out to the street with my backhoe.  My junk guy said he'd take it if I did...  what a thrill that was.  We ran interferance on the road...  to the junk yard. 
He needed all of the 2 lane country road & we had to physically block idiots trying to pass him...  & he wasn't going that slow, down hill with only the brakes on his one ton truck.   
I used to work in a ship yard...  it was every day paractice to move 40 foot aux sail boats in cradles on planks & rollers.  Rollers were about 3 feet long & the diameter of a baseball bat.  The old Swede used to "tune" the rollers with a sledge as we stayed clear of the cable through a block on a dead man.   We could also do this equally well on gravel or on a concret floor...  though indoors we could lift the cradles with automotive floor jacks & move them that way.     

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Re: lathe
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 05:10:23 PM »
We always used small pipe or bar stock ,with a couple of long pinch bars and round bars you can move heavy machinery. Can even turn corners or change directions. Only works on a solid floor.

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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2013, 03:18:58 AM »
Outdoors you lay planks over the ground to make a continous surface.  Yes, as I tried to describe, you can turn by the roller angle or even move on a diagonal.   We also moved smaller craddled boats outdoors on roller jacks by shingling large hunks of boiler plate.   

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Re: lathe
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2013, 04:21:55 AM »
New, bigger lathe!  Celebrate.

I moved my milling machine 30' by myself - it just takes a lot of 1" sections of pipe and a good lever.

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Re: lathe
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2013, 05:32:42 AM »
well i am a commercial/ industrial union electrician, so moving heavy loads is up my all, i am gonna use tank rollers, a lull and a few friends to help take down two walls, as my barn is a pole barn but it has been all walled up and has a few interior walls  so its just easier to cut some holes and  and slide in  then rebuild all wiring on lathe from 3 phase 480 to 3 phase 208.   


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Re: lathe
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2013, 06:08:31 AM »
Rampa room artillery,
Congratulations on your lathe size upgrade.



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Re: lathe
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2013, 01:58:07 PM »
My problem is most mills and lathes I find at a good price are 3 phase.


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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2013, 02:56:23 PM »
all you need is a rotary phase converter they are not expensive.  i paid paid 300 for my 3 hp. and now we are getting a 20 hp for 1200.00

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Re: lathe
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2013, 03:32:37 PM »
I like VFD drives for low-HP 3-phase generation (just built a setup to take 208v 1P to 400v 3P for an old British lathe), but either way, don't pass up 3-phase gear because you don't have it coming from the wall...

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Re: lathe
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2013, 04:46:27 PM »
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Hey Tim, good to finally hear from you, I was just getting ready to send a PM. I was starting to worry that the Skunks might have formed a vigilante committee, and exacted revenge on you for persecuting their kind.

Thanks, John.  Been busy.  Career total of FIFTY skunks (one so far this year).  I'm sure that I'll be among the first up against the wall in the Black and White Revolution.

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Re: lathe
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2013, 04:47:43 PM »
My problem is most mills and lathes I find at a good price are 3 phase.
Doug

NOT a problem.  Spend 1-200 on a rotary converter - or build one.  I boiught one (5HP for about $225 shipped) but you can build one - do a little reseach.
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