The cherry picker, Sam. Technically it’s an engine hoist, used for lifting the engine out of a car to replace it or rebuild it.
Justin didn’t film that part because he was afraid he would lose the lathe and didn’t want that memorialized if it killed it.
He put straps around the lathe, hooked the straps to the bar on the hoist, then jacked it up with a hydraulic jack at the rear. The long bar lifted the lathe then Justin slid the bench he made underneath it. After lowering the lathe onto the bench, he removed the straps and the hoist. After bolting down the lathe to the bench, he used a pallet jack to drive the entire assembly into position. Again it’s a hydraulic jack operating a simple “fork lift” that you man power into position. The pallet jack is designed to lift a pallet off the ground high enough to then roll it around and move it. Usually used in warehouses and tractor trailers to maneuver pallets a short distance by hand.
These guys are right, it’s all in the video.
The video is a series of stills, spliced together as sort of a slideshow. That’s why I remembered them as pictures.
I hope OL doesn’t mind, here is a few captures from the video showing how it was done,
I upload videos to youtube. Doesn't youtube convert them when they are uploaded? I have to find out about that. When I link here, is when the Flash format comes in, because it's the default format on this forum, in the drop down list, when adding a video via the advanced post format method.
Are others going to have a problem seeing Windows Media?, since so many do not use windows at all, or use tablets?
No problem here, maybe a change of browser is in order. Or you can click the youtube button on the lower part of the video to go to youtube and view the html5 stream. It doesn’t matter OL how you upload them, Youtube converts them anyway to multiple formats for compatibility.
I like the idea of a readily accessible bit shelf and indexing the tailstock but no how to’s on any of the more complex ideas. The cam locks seem like a good idea as well.
I'm not really looking to mod much, but anything that makes loosening or tightening easier, like the change on the tailstock, is interesting. One of the very first things I will do, is to find new handles for the compound. The carriage wheel and Crossover wheel both have the type of handle with a thru bolt and the outer handle spins freely. The Compound rest handles are just solid, so if you want to turn the compound much at all, the handles come out and it's a pain to turn, so I want to find or make handles like the larger ones. I doubt I will do any mods, to turn it into a digital read out lathe, nor will I mount calipers, or dial indicators permanently, but you never know. I would like to mount an electronic stop switch in front of the carriage, so the machine would E-stop if the carriage were to get too close to the chuck. That I could see as a safety mod.
just one question- what did your wife say when you told her the BLF would buy you a lathe ? And what was her reaction when it arrived! I would love to know that! :bigsmile: