"DGDevin" wrote in message
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Using that "hind site thang", that seems like a pretty good idea!

Experience, it's what teaches us to recognize a mistake when we've made it
again.

Deja-vu


I thought about assembling it with it laying down but the base being
on the larger platform and it being on the wider mobile base seemed
to present possible problems. You should have seen my son and I
mounting the 4.5hp 220 volt Baldor motor to the Laguna band saw. He
had to hold the motor up about 20" off the floor and keep it properly
clocked while I on the other side of the saw screwed the bolts in and
hold the belt out of the way. The motor probably weighed close to
100 lbs. and makes the 3 hp motor on the planer and TS look small by
compairison.

It just occurred to me that within a fifteen minute drive of here there
are at least two places that rent stuff like engine stands and portable
hoists and scissor lifts so on. I'm going to have to remember that for
future assemblies and installations instead of asking the wife to brace
the [insert name of tool] while I try to hold a contorted position while
threading a nut onto a bolt....

You had to bring that up...... I have a roll around hydraulic jack within a
15 seconds crawl under a work bench. ;~( I'm sure there was a good reason
for not using it 3 years ago.