New Machine day! Mori-Seiki MV-55!

[ferrret3238]

Have been looking for a bigger machine for a while now. My Bridgeport Boss 5 worked great but was too small, My Leadwell runs but is a pain to run programs on, so I sold the Bridgeport a few months ago and started looking. I found this MV-55 about a hour and a half away and decided to pull the trigger on it. Its a heavy SOB weighing in around 22,000 lbs. Ran good when I went to look at it and also came with a Troyke 4th axis. Riggers loaded it with a 40-60 Versalift which is a amazing forklift. Trucked it up here and unloaded it with a 30 ton Manitex crane truck. Set it on Hilman rollers in the doorway and skated it all the way to the back of my shop. Lots of porta power work and repositioning the skates to get it to go where it needed to be. Its 240 80A 3ph and I only had a 30A feed where the Bridgeport sat so I need to run a new breaker, feed, and disconnect to the back wall. Got a temporary 30A to it just to charge the batteries for now. If it loses parameters its a pain to reprogram. For some reason this was harder to move than the pressbrake. Took 2 days to get it up here and into place.

[monsoon-mech]

Nice! but why is that truck flyin an oversize sign? loads within 102" wide and 22k isn't even close to overweight, next gonna have to start the thread on the new shop expansion

[ferrret3238]

It is bigger than it looks, actually hangs over the trailer. Was 114" wide. I could have pulled the surround off of it but that is a really big pain, all the seams are sealed and bolted under piles of chips. I was really nervous about the beam in the last pic. On skates it just cleared by 1.5". Was hoping I didn't have to drop it to round bars. The new shop expansion has been going on very slowly, finally started pouring concrete 3 weeks ago. That's what all the W beams are for in the third picture. Just did some rebar cages last week for forms but that will be another thread sometime later. Going to do columns and a bridge crane again.

[Steve from SoCal]

Nice lookin machine, Mori's are top notch.

Looks like a tight squeeze through the doorway.

Congrats,

[forhire]

Welcome to the Mori family.