Well with HUGE thanks to Russ (Wrustle) and his son Andrew, the machine is now sitting on the floor! My older son Steven also helped, but it was Russ using his experience, his long steel pry bar and some aluminum blocks he gifted me that made all the difference in the world.
I've just got to get some of those dense rubber/fiber pads or simple shims to get a little rocking stopped as it's apparently not a perfectly flat concrete floor.
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I went back later and got all the big pieces of stuff moved back into position, including the 24"x36"x4" surface plate/junk collection table. That thing must weigh about 300 pounds, so it took all I could do to drag it back into the middle of the floor. In it's base is a 125 pound 10" Yuasa rotary table with footstock that I will likely never use again now that I have a machine that can mill circles. It's a struggle getting that thing out of the wooden box and up onto the machine table.
One impediment to progress was that as I started rotating the head to it's normal upright position, I realized I don't have a drawbar for it. I sent a text over to the seller and he replied immediately that a friend of his who used it last broke the drawbar and that "I thought I mentioned that." I suffer from age-related CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t), so if he did tell me it slipped my mind. Another $40 or so and I should be able to cut metal. In the meantime, I'll lube it up and give it a long-overdue bath.
I've just got to get some of those dense rubber/fiber pads or simple shims to get a little rocking stopped as it's apparently not a perfectly flat concrete floor.
I went back later and got all the big pieces of stuff moved back into position, including the 24"x36"x4" surface plate/junk collection table. That thing must weigh about 300 pounds, so it took all I could do to drag it back into the middle of the floor. In it's base is a 125 pound 10" Yuasa rotary table with footstock that I will likely never use again now that I have a machine that can mill circles. It's a struggle getting that thing out of the wooden box and up onto the machine table.
One impediment to progress was that as I started rotating the head to it's normal upright position, I realized I don't have a drawbar for it. I sent a text over to the seller and he replied immediately that a friend of his who used it last broke the drawbar and that "I thought I mentioned that." I suffer from age-related CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t), so if he did tell me it slipped my mind. Another $40 or so and I should be able to cut metal. In the meantime, I'll lube it up and give it a long-overdue bath.