Shipping knee, saddle and table to grinder…advice on palletising

[George KonstantinidisParticipant @georgekonstantinidis64932]

Hi all,



I want to send my KRV 2000 bed, knee and saddle to be reground and turcited. I was told by the various grinder that I could palletise the parts and get them shipped.



Has anybody done this for a knee mill with a 50" table here? If so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.



I have a standard 1×1.2m pallet ready to go.

Thanks in advance

George

[George KonstantinidisParticipant @georgekonstantinidis64932]

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

You need to make wooden blocks to keep it all from moving on the pallet and then use strapping to secure to the pallet. I would also pad it underneath the table with about 4 or 5 layers of stiff cardboard. basically as its heavy, when its on a truck it will have quite a bit of inertia as the truck is slowing or cornering. Even consider bolting it down to the pallet with blocks of wood.

Clive

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Would agree with Clive about bolting it down onto the pallet if possible.

Seller did just that with my BH600G lathe, and it was rock solid.

However, sellers of the Marlow, TS and Boxford Shaper only strapped theirs down, but they arrived safely except for the Marlow Handwheel handle going AWOL en-route.

The last thing you or the carrier would want is for those lumps of metal to break free, but surely the carrier would inspect before accepting.

Geoff – Waiting for the Dawn Chorus

[George KonstantinidisParticipant @georgekonstantinidis64932]

Thanks gentlemen. I will see how I can stack them safely on one pallet.

[Nigel McBurney 1Participant @nigelmcburney1]

I would extend the pallet by a few inches so that is longer than the table,and with the weight of three components I would suggest stiffening the pallet, by screwing 19 mm shuttering ply onto the top of the pallet, pallet delivery companies are not very careful. Though I do think that three heavy precision items on one pallet is asking a bit too much from a timber pallet. I had a tonne of steam coal delivered, the load of 25 kilo bags had shifted and were very close to falling off the pallet,The operator only just managed to get the load onto the tail lift, and I lucky had a tractor with forks to remove the pallet from the tail lift, two other pallet loads of thin wooden flooring had gone over and dumped the whole load over the truck floor, total write off . Ensure your goods are insured. When I had my 6 inch traction engine wheels vulcanised I took them a long way up to Yorkshire on my trailer,ii anything went wrong at least it would be my fault.

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