The plan was to get most of the smaller stuff out the basement and up into the Linton gallery. Then whilst we were doing that V8Ian would be partially dismantling the milling machine as it wouldn’t go through the tunnel in one piece. The lathe, all 4,8m of it would be pretty much the last item to be hauled out. We very nearly stuck to that plan, but there were a few surprises along the way which necessitated a slight deviation from plan. All the smaller stuff did make it out to the truck, just not in the order originally envisioned.
Surface grinder made it out
As did the little powerhacksaw
A not so light workbench with a solid 1.1/2” thick steel top was worth the aggro Things would have been so much simpler if who ever installed the overhead hoist had installed it central to the door, not off to one side 🙄 Then it was time to move the milling machine. Apparently somebody had tried before and failed. We were about to find out why.....
See - I told you it would be worthwhile challenge and more fun than pub lock in
So much more fun - watching with great interest and more than a little envious of pretty much every aspect of this adventure (Particularly the back rooms of the museum)
Those power saws are brilliant, until some twit sets the cut rate too fast and the blade goes bang (or someone else puts the blade in upside-down then wonders why a cut takes so long...).
Rover 75 Connie SE (stored) MG ZTT 160 (for sale) Rover 75 Connie Tourer (dog hauler and general shifter) Toyota Starlet Sportif Auto (town car) Maestro 700 van (under build)
All the time the House Elf and I had been moving the smaller bits, v8ian had slowly but surely been putting the milling machine back into kit form
The head, skyhook and table all had been removed .
Some of it had found its way up to the top already.,The table was waiting its turn.It all came apart very easily. Very well thought out design, with less than 15 bolts needing removal to get the head and table off. So, it came as a bit of a surprise that there were no cut outs in the base for you to lift it with a toe jack. Very odd indeed 🤔🤔
An alternative arrangement was made to try and lift it with the jack
The mill sank into the ground overnight where we left it on pipe rollers, or shall we say the rollers sank into the ground so it went onto timber, in retrospect, Im glad this was not in the height of summer, it would have been like trying to extract machines on a floor of PlayDough I see Alan has assumed the position
Time for an update on this. The milling machine has now been moved inside the workshop at Alan’s, following him having to throw a new floor where it was going to stand. There was a couple of issues with it that v8ian found when he took it to pieces prior to us moving it. The offending items have been stripped out and the new bearings have been ordered.
Need to find the photos of the lathe,that was entertaining to get out of the basement….🤣
Time for an update on this. The milling machine has now been moved inside the workshop at Alan’s, following him having to throw a new floor where it was going to stand. There was a couple of issues with it that v8ian found when he took it to pieces prior to us moving it. The offending items have been stripped out and the new bearings have been ordered.
Need to find the photos of the lathe,that was entertaining to get out of the basement….🤣
Then once at the top of that passageway and into the loading dock,it was all systems go…..errr no it wasn’t. What kind of pillock puts an overhead gantry not central to the doorway that leads into a small loading dock? Original plan had been to use this gantry in conjunction with the hiab to lift the lathe, all 5 meters and 3500kgs of it,up onto the next level,skate it to the door and the have a proper lift with the hiab onto the back of the truck. With the gantry well off to one side,this wasn’t going to happen. With the truck too big to get in the door to use the hiab inside, we had a problem. Pity none of us had the time or inclination to take photos, but, we landed up with the truck outside,and the boom of the hiab fully extended. Probably a good 15m away from the truck…. Pays to have the right kit, even though fully extended and none of us actually believing it would actually do it, it lifted it without a problem
It was on the truck. Museum staff could not believe we had it out and on to the truck in three hours….neither could we 🤣🤣