Kinda strange to be posting this, I have all but sold my entire workshop contents and had this machine initially for sale and then free to a good home and today the prospective owner dropped out after seriously underestimating it's weight.
So I am left with a machine no-one wants and tbh it's a bit sad but it has to go, so to aid its removal I chopped it in half -
Before, having disassembled the fence, table, motor, gib and slide/spindle assembly -
The base alone was too heavy to move even bare so I chopped it in half with a 115mm angle grinder, it took 5 x 1mm thick disks albeit the last 2 were only part worn - I just needed the depth -
Sections of the casting were between 26-34mm thick - it was quite solid a machine...!
As a momento I am keeping the rise & fall wheel, that alone weighs 5.4Kg..
Kinda weird posting the end-of-life of such a lovely machine when other folks are posting exquisite restorations but the reality is I need to sell up and it had to go...
/Ed
So I am left with a machine no-one wants and tbh it's a bit sad but it has to go, so to aid its removal I chopped it in half -
Before, having disassembled the fence, table, motor, gib and slide/spindle assembly -
The base alone was too heavy to move even bare so I chopped it in half with a 115mm angle grinder, it took 5 x 1mm thick disks albeit the last 2 were only part worn - I just needed the depth -
Sections of the casting were between 26-34mm thick - it was quite solid a machine...!
As a momento I am keeping the rise & fall wheel, that alone weighs 5.4Kg..
Kinda weird posting the end-of-life of such a lovely machine when other folks are posting exquisite restorations but the reality is I need to sell up and it had to go...
/Ed
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