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its a 4' jet its defiantly not american iron but it works decent gets quite a bit of flex when really working though if I was to get another I would get a heavier older one.

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Originally Posted by idacal

here is some after the table is on but we still have hours of leveling. the lathe is back in, and the machines that have to be fit back in there I think the shaper is going elsewhere I have no place to put it and I don't use it much at all but I'm sentimentally still attached to it

Curious what the radial arm drill is? That would be super handy to have.

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idacal, thank you for sharing your new machine project in search of wider travels and larger work envelope.

There were jobs in mind when you started on the hunt for a bigger capacity machine. Hopefully once the first one comes up, the extra floor space will seem like a reasonable inconvenience.

With regards to how much shop space it is taking up, ... maybe this is a dumb idea ... but could you "when not in use" travel the table up close to the head stock and then park a bunch of fork-lift-able stuff at the far end? The steel floor bracing looks like it would block any roller cabinets, wire racks, or the like.

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That's bigger than the photos suggest, then! What a unit.
Probably worth the cost and hassle of a bed grind...

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the lathe is a monarch 60 series 20" swing about 13' between centers definitely needs some work, might replace it next year will see how this year goes.

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Such a beast of a machine. I bet if you get rid of it, a job will come in that absolutely would have required the capacity...

What is the lathe, what make? It looks like around 17-19" swing? It's a similar problem to most older lathes these days, they all need bed grinds...

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That skid plate under it is 10’8” wide it its about 9’ tall facing chuck is 24” with as much shop space as ittakes im having second thoughtS about it. may just put it up for sale, Its easy to get out now we will give it a month and see how much we use it.

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I'd like to see a pic of an operator standing in front of the machine near the chuck for a size perspective. I know it's a big machine but still can't help but wonder how tall it is.

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the stuff that was painted, was with oil base, most of the shop besides that one corner has sheetrock on top of the osb up 4' for fire. thats where the lathe was and was to tight to work back there. I dont care for metal interior walls in a shop its too sharp once its damaged can't hang anything without special mounts. cant lean anything against the walls without bending it. I was buying osb as needed for temporary projects then using it to sheet the shop, that's why only part of the shop is sheeted or painted, haven't slowed down for 4 years to have time for anything that isn't 100% nessasary

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Painting osb is not to bad if you use an oil primer first. Water base primer keeps bleeding through

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When you do get to paint, you'll find that older OSB will soak up a pile. Might be easier and not much more money to cover it in white metal. You get the added bonus of better spark protection.

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the worst part bout the lathe is i have already ran out of swing on it, not length though have used most of it many times. its tired and close to the chuck is fairly inaccurate so get it to within .005 then do it with emory cloth but it works most of the time for what I do. would like to replace it with an accurate 4' bed and just have this one for the longer work, but no room no room. this was a quick move everything out, and move it back in, because I needed my trailers back. so no time to paint if we slow down one of these winters, painting will keep the guys busy for a while

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Originally Posted by N2 Welding

Wow that lathe is no joke.

Yeah, I bet we could thread a few rifle barrels on that one.

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Wow that lathe is no joke.

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Originally Posted by idacal

here is some after the table is on but we still have hours of leveling. the lathe is back in, and the machines that have to be fit back in there I think the shaper is going elsewhere I have no place to put it and I don't use it much at all but I'm sentimentally still attached to it

Would have been the perfect time to fire up an airless sprayer and get some bright white paint on those OSB walls.

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here is some after the table is on but we still have hours of leveling. the lathe is back in, and the machines that have to be fit back in there I think the shaper is going elsewhere I have no place to put it and I don't use it much at all but I'm sentimentally still attached to it

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finally had time to get this thing in the shop, rented a 15000 forklift because every machine in the shop had to come out to get this in. the smaller fork and the skid steer did most of the work but the mill, radial, and shaper, were to heavy and couldn't be lifted easily with 2 machines no pictures moving them out. picture of the lathe going out. lifted it off of the trailer with my good old drill rig. haven't seen the shop this empty in years.

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Is that a G&L?

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Originally Posted by forhire

Have you seen Raymond Menendez (TheMetalRaymond) on youtube?

That guy's pretty amazing, isn't he? I love that turntable on his main mill.

Years ago, when I was still an ignorant kid, I turned down a small horizontal mill because I was wholly ignorant of the things and never thought I'd get much use out of it. If only I'd have known!

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They are fun to run.
They great tool when need one.
My self like ones where table does not rotate. The rotation is great paper but turn as you run the machine.

Dave

Originally Posted by idacal

I have been looking for a horizontal boring mill for a while and one finally came available about 350 miles away Im 2 trips into it and have 2 more to get it disassembled and hauled the good part is once its here I shouldn't run out of travels and table space for a while here is some pictures of the table of course a rain storm just came through. its cleaned up now, total weight will be around 40000 lbs but it was 13' wide so I had to disassemble it.

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finally all the stars alined and I made it back to montana to get the base of my mill. still need one more trip but it will be a run up there and run back last part can be loaded with forklift easily. this piece was 21000 lbs and had to be lifted off a sub base and rolled out of the building hopefully I can get the last piece next week and start figuring out where im going to put it in the shop.

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Congratulations. Throw up a lean-to and keep all the machines.

Have you seen Raymond Menendez (TheMetalRaymond) on youtube? No commentary, just one skilled dude in Spain working his horizontal mill.

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Originally Posted by farmersammm

Sounds familiar.

I bought an abandoned vehicle from an Army base. The act of just getting through the gate to pick it up, was almost like applying for a passport. I'm surprised they didn't ask for a DNA sample. We spent over 2hrs just getting on base

The real hoot................they just waved us through on the way out. (WOW!) I could have had the base commander lashed to the trailer, and they wouldn't have noticed

My daughter in law works security at a nearby airbase, a few times I've had to go pick her up for whatever reason, sometimes they look at my drivers license, but most of the time when I tell them why I'm there they'll just wave me through, other times they just tell me to pull forward & off to the side, but it's still on the base.

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That's a really impressive looking table... looking forward to seeing the whole machine put back together!

Me, I'm just starting to think I need a knee mill!

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The air base in OKC has auctions on some government surplus site. I forget which one.

Anyways, I bought some steering tires for one of the big trucks. Got a good price on the bid.

But!!!!! The way they run the thing there............all stuff that's on the auction site is warehoused in a low security section that's just off base. You go there, show your paperwork, and they load your truck. No messing around with base security. And!!!!! they had some big stuff in that warehouse.........machinery, vehicles, equipment. I was really impressed with the way they run it.