I just bought a tabletop mill. It was a couple of hours away and a friend
was very close and picked it up for me. He showed up this morning with a
machine that weighed 5 or 6 hundred pounds fully assembled in the back of
his truck. I did not have a fork, or a lift table. We would up removing the
motor, then the head in the truck. We then hoisted, cursed, bitched and
moaned the rest of it on to a table with wheels. Rolled it in the shop to
discover the ceiling was too low to reassemble. Back out to the truck so we
could stand in the truck and hoist the head back on to the column. Back in
to the shop to get it back together and start it up. Cool!!!
Then back to the street because I could not get the top cover back on.
A nice mornings work.
Having a mill in the shop is very handy. Besides fixing all of the old tools
and building new ones, you can mortise and do a lot of other operations. I
might even give up my prized drill press if this works out.
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