Lifting or hoisting a Myford Super 7

[AJWParticipant @ajw]

I made jackable feet to go underneath the cabinet feet, with the bolts screwed down it’s all solid, Unscrewing the bolts allows a platform with 2 nylon wheels down to the ground allowing the lathe on the cabinet to be moved – not easy but it does allow it all to be moved.

Alan

Edited By AJW on 01/04/2018 14:06:19

[Ian HewsonParticipant @ianhewson99641]

How did you get it on to the kitchen table?

How will you get it off?

[Cyril BonnettParticipant @cyrilbonnett24790]

Took four of us to carry our super seven up 12 steps, along a sloping path up another three steps, round the corner of the house, up another 8 steps and up a rather steep lawn to our shed.

Just be careful lifting something as heavy as a myford lathe, as pointed out you only have one body but you can buy another lathe any where any time.

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 31/03/2018 20:37:10:

I would be very please to receive an article for MEW explaining how to safely lift a lathe with an engine crane for similar. Advice on spreaders, lifting points, protecting leadscrews and ways to avoid toppling all to be covered.Neil

Posted by Cyril Bonnett on 01/04/2018 23:05:10: Took four of us to carry our super seven up 12 steps, along a sloping path up another three steps, round the corner of the house, up another 8 steps and up a rather steep lawn to our shed. Just be careful lifting something as heavy as a myford lathe, as pointed out you only have one body but you can buy another lathe any where any time.

Neil, looks like Cyril has written a suitable article for you.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Posted by Clive India on 02/04/2018 09:05:13:

Neil, looks like Cyril has written a suitable article for you.

Four ‘engines’, maybe, but no crane?

Steam engines? Should have been able to get up a ‘full head of steam’ while doing it. Or maybe they carried the lathe on its stand, so a little steadier?

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

The advice in the manual for the Engineers ToolRoom BL12-24 (and presumably for the Warco BH600 and Chester Craftsman) said to fix a clamp part way along the bed and sling it from there, adjusting the balance by moving the Tailstock and Saddle. The Fixed Steady would suffice, as long as it cannot open up.

In the event, the sling was placed under a hefty bar, through cast holes at the Headstock end, and under the far end behind the Tailstock, avoiding the Leadscrew and Power shaft. This worked well; the lathe weighs some 300Kg, and being brand new, it was important not to drop it.

I have helped lift a Myford Conniseur by wrapping a sling around the bed, and through itself (to minimise risk of slippage), but not my favourite way of slinging.

Howard

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