20-01-2014, 01:49 AM
You have reminded me of the day back when I used to work as a computer refurbisher.
We shared the building with two other sets of works.
The printer bought a vintage printing press because it had a document serial numbering attachment and it was as big as a full industrial lathe and he had stripped it down to get it out far enough to remove it from the old building it lived in.
It arrived on a flat bed truck with a crane behind the cab and the chassis had to go on a pallet truck that screamed as we shifted it into his little print shop.
Getting it off the pallet truck was a fiddly job with lots of wedges and bits of wood just like you used to get it on the floor where he wanted it while all back together again and got it going.
He used it quite a lot in the end but he never did a cosmetic restoration though.
I don't think I could ever run to more than a watchmakers lathe here due to space and hard standing.
We shared the building with two other sets of works.
The printer bought a vintage printing press because it had a document serial numbering attachment and it was as big as a full industrial lathe and he had stripped it down to get it out far enough to remove it from the old building it lived in.
It arrived on a flat bed truck with a crane behind the cab and the chassis had to go on a pallet truck that screamed as we shifted it into his little print shop.
Getting it off the pallet truck was a fiddly job with lots of wedges and bits of wood just like you used to get it on the floor where he wanted it while all back together again and got it going.
He used it quite a lot in the end but he never did a cosmetic restoration though.
I don't think I could ever run to more than a watchmakers lathe here due to space and hard standing.
