Jet JPT-310 - how to mount onto a mobile base?

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Hi all

Yesterday I proudly took delivery of a Jet JPT-310 Planer/Thicknesser, and I'm pretty excited at unpacking it and getting it up and running. When I ordered this from Axminster, I also ordered the Jet mobile base (500kg version), and now I'm faced with a dilemma of how on earth I get the planer off the delivery pallet and onto this wheel base.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Jet mobile base, it consists of four corner frames (with a caster mounted on each one), and then four high-strength steel bars to which the corner frames attach. So in theory, at least, one doesn't have to completely build the base before the planer is "lowered" into position.

But I just have no idea how to tackle this one! Do I try and "slide" the 230kg beast from the pallet onto the wheel set? Do I take the planer off the pallet first, and then try and tilt it onto the wheel kit, two wheels at a time? I just don't know!

Any advice as to how other people have address this would be gratefully received!

Thank you

Ian

 

[WellsWood]

Ooh, ooh, I know this one! I feel your pain Ian, I have done exactly what you require, albeit several years ago, and it took a little head scratching. I can't remember but I may have photographed the process, I'll have a look on the home pc later to see if they are there. It will take a little to explain without pics but I'll have a go. Basically , I approached the issue not by getting the machine off the pallet but by removing the pallet from below the machine so to speak. Think giant Jenga. You will need 5 lengths of decent timber about 1m long and some blocks of scrap, 2 of these should be about 75mm x 50 which you thread below the machine between the front and rear of the main chassis. 2 more pieces can be 100 x 50 -ish, and at least a foot or so longer than the pallet is wide. (can you see where this is going yet?) Have a freind with muscles steady the machine while carefully tipping the machine to one end using piece number 5 - do NOT use the tables to tip or move the machine if you can possibly avoid it - enough to get one of the other pair of timbers beneath the 2 ends of the 3x2s. This peice should now protrude fore and aft off the pallet sufficiently to get blocks of scrap beneath. You then go to the other end and repeat, you may have to do this a number of times in small increments (because it's safer), untill you have the machine suspended on the timber just above the pallet which can now be slid out from under. build you base below the machine and carefully reverse the process untill - Ta-daaa! - you shiny new p/t is on your shiny new mobile base.

Hope that all makes sense.

 

[pcb1962]

But I just have no idea how to tackle this one! Do I try and "slide" the 230kg beast from the pallet onto the wheel set? Do I take the planer off the pallet first, and then try and tilt it onto the wheel kit, two wheels at a time? I just don't know!

Buy / borrow / hire an engine crane.
From about 130 quid and very useful around the workshop IME.

 

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I've got the JPT260 and I basically raised the machine off the pallet by levering the ends just high enough to slip in some plywood scraps, build the base under the machine then lower the machine onto the base. After this is was a case of wheeling the machine off the pallet with a well supported plywood ramp. No pictures of this unfortunately but it is possible to do this on your own.