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Didn't figure out ALL the weak points, but I'm glad that some of them were eliminated. The lathe is in the basement, and as far as I know so far, undamaged. My buddy showed up at 7pm (about 4 hours later than he'd promised) and said let's do it. I thought we would get to a logical stopping point like stopping on the bottom landing and finish it later. To his credit, he pushed me to get the whole job done.
Glad we had put in safety stops and things like that. Had some slips in the come-along that were checked/arrested by the safeties. Had a safety chain attached to the headstock, and a safety strap on the tailstock. Each one was put to the test. The come-along was attached to a chain though the tailstock casting. Fortunately everything worked as expected. Used a Y chain arrangement with 4x4 anchors on the doorways. Worked really well. For the lowering, everyone was on the topside. Have to say, I only have one picture of the process. Here is the lathe just starting the descent and the load is fully taken up by the come-along. After that, we were too darned busy trying to figure out how to do the next step safely. I had screwed in a piece of steel (with a radiused edge) to the plywood for the cable to run against. Was afraid of the cable eating through the plywood. Worked great. No damage to the cable, or the steel.
The hardest parts were removing the wheels from the trolley at the bottom landing, with the lathe still on the trolley, and swiveling the headstock off the trolley onto the stand. I wanted the lathe immobile on the landing. Why? The landing was not quite long enough to hold the whole lathe. Lathe trolley is 48", landing is ~36"L x 32"W. Distance to the back wall, at the bottom of the stairs, to the landing is 21". Just enough room to get in a small step stool. Without the wheels, but on the trolley, the lathe height was equal to the lathe stand height. This made it easier to just swivel over the lathe onto the stand. There was more grunt work than I had anticipated in that "just swivel it over". But little by little, managed to do it. Bolted the lathe to the stand and wheeled it over to the location.
We were at it until 1:30am. My buddy helped me clean up the doorways, the chain, the flooring and rehang the doors. No damage to the tile floor. Truly a good thing.
This morning woke up, despite only having slept 5-1/2 hours. Pretty sore, but still have a lot of cleanup. Here's the lathe roughly in position. Need to rehang the exterior storm door, that will be next.
Glad we had put in safety stops and things like that. Had some slips in the come-along that were checked/arrested by the safeties. Had a safety chain attached to the headstock, and a safety strap on the tailstock. Each one was put to the test. The come-along was attached to a chain though the tailstock casting. Fortunately everything worked as expected. Used a Y chain arrangement with 4x4 anchors on the doorways. Worked really well. For the lowering, everyone was on the topside. Have to say, I only have one picture of the process. Here is the lathe just starting the descent and the load is fully taken up by the come-along. After that, we were too darned busy trying to figure out how to do the next step safely. I had screwed in a piece of steel (with a radiused edge) to the plywood for the cable to run against. Was afraid of the cable eating through the plywood. Worked great. No damage to the cable, or the steel.
The hardest parts were removing the wheels from the trolley at the bottom landing, with the lathe still on the trolley, and swiveling the headstock off the trolley onto the stand. I wanted the lathe immobile on the landing. Why? The landing was not quite long enough to hold the whole lathe. Lathe trolley is 48", landing is ~36"L x 32"W. Distance to the back wall, at the bottom of the stairs, to the landing is 21". Just enough room to get in a small step stool. Without the wheels, but on the trolley, the lathe height was equal to the lathe stand height. This made it easier to just swivel over the lathe onto the stand. There was more grunt work than I had anticipated in that "just swivel it over". But little by little, managed to do it. Bolted the lathe to the stand and wheeled it over to the location.
We were at it until 1:30am. My buddy helped me clean up the doorways, the chain, the flooring and rehang the doors. No damage to the tile floor. Truly a good thing.
This morning woke up, despite only having slept 5-1/2 hours. Pretty sore, but still have a lot of cleanup. Here's the lathe roughly in position. Need to rehang the exterior storm door, that will be next.
