- 1. *big* tools (score: 1)
- Author: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:20:00 +0000
- While looking at the newspaper this morning I noticed something interesting. Small used forklifts are selling for $1000 or so. They're probably beat to hell and need work, but a home shop wouldn't wo
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00119.html (8,021 bytes)
- 2. Re: *big* tools (score: 1)
- Author: gt8610a@prism.gatech.edu (Thomas Augustus Kimberly)
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:06:43 -0500 (EST)
- I currently work at a Mercedes and BMW used parts place (to the chagrin of my TR) and while I was working in the chop sh..er...dissesembley plant although we had a big screw lift all we ever used was
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00120.html (7,087 bytes)
- 3. Re: *big* tools (score: 1)
- Author: StephWeiss@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 06:14:33 -0500
- When we got our Bridgeport, we used a friend's tow truck to lift it off the flatbed that brought it to our house. We then moved it to the back of the garage by putting some steel tubing on the floor
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00142.html (7,208 bytes)
- 4. Re: *big* tools (score: 1)
- Author: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 20:01:00 +0000
- Yep, that seems to be the standard method. However, my Gorton mill isn't flat on the bottom. It has little cast-in feet at the corners, about an inch high, perfect for lousing up easy rolling. I had
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00205.html (7,112 bytes)
- 5. Re: *big* tools (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:17:40 -0600 (CST)
- It takes a while, but the old millwright's method of moving a milling machine across a concrete floor is to lever it with a steel lever or length of pipe. Phil "been there, done that, got the T-shirt
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00208.html (7,202 bytes)
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