Smouser
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Last year I bought a Jones & Shipman 540 surface grinder unseen (apart from a few poor photos) on an auction with some other machines and tools.
I got the Surface grinder for a very good price and I think one of the reasons was because the auctioneer/site did not have forklift available for loading which might have put a few people off bidding.
I took my Chinese engine crane with me thinking I would be able to lift the SG onto the a pallet and then hopefully use an electric pallet stacker they had on site to lift the machine onto the trailer.
The machine was in a little machine shop made out of wood panels and I lifted the surface grinder just enough to drag it out of the small machine shop into the big building.
Once we had it out, we tried to lift the SG onto a pallet. That was the first time my Chinese crane failed me. I could not get a pallet in underneath the machine due to the legs of the engine crane getting in the way. The fact that one lifting eye was missing from the machine did not help either.
I decided to try and get a forklift from one of the other businesses on the business park in exchange for beer tokens and luckily the first place I tried agreed to load the machine for me with their forks.
Once I got home I asked my neighbour if he could bring his tractor from the farm to offload it for me. More beer tokens exchanged.
It got put on a metal pallet and wheeled into the garage with a pallet truck where it say untouched until now.
After having great success lifting my Elliott TV2 mill with my pallet stacker, I thought I would try the pallet stacker on the SG too to get it off the To lift it properly, I would need both lifting eyes so last week I had a quick look at the existing eye bolt.
I 'established' it was a 1/2" UNC eye bolt I required.
I ordered two new eye bolts and they arrived a few days later. But, they did not fit, they only screwed in a few threads
I got a thread gauge out and measured the threads on the new and old eye bolts.
The new eyebolts were 1/2" 13 tpi UNC bolts.
The old one was a 1/2" 12 tpi bolt despite the fact that 'UNC' is clearly stamped on the bolt
I guess the original eye bolt is 1/2" BSW 12 tpi thread with UNC stamped on the bolt
Tonight I decided to pull the hydraulic tank out of the machine to check the state of things.
I took the front panel off.
To remove the tank, two rubber hydraulic hoses need to be disconnected and the tank can then be slid outside.
Once the tank was out, the motor could be easily disconnected.
I got the Surface grinder for a very good price and I think one of the reasons was because the auctioneer/site did not have forklift available for loading which might have put a few people off bidding.
I took my Chinese engine crane with me thinking I would be able to lift the SG onto the a pallet and then hopefully use an electric pallet stacker they had on site to lift the machine onto the trailer.
The machine was in a little machine shop made out of wood panels and I lifted the surface grinder just enough to drag it out of the small machine shop into the big building.
Once we had it out, we tried to lift the SG onto a pallet. That was the first time my Chinese crane failed me. I could not get a pallet in underneath the machine due to the legs of the engine crane getting in the way. The fact that one lifting eye was missing from the machine did not help either.
I decided to try and get a forklift from one of the other businesses on the business park in exchange for beer tokens and luckily the first place I tried agreed to load the machine for me with their forks.
Once I got home I asked my neighbour if he could bring his tractor from the farm to offload it for me. More beer tokens exchanged.
It got put on a metal pallet and wheeled into the garage with a pallet truck where it say untouched until now.
After having great success lifting my Elliott TV2 mill with my pallet stacker, I thought I would try the pallet stacker on the SG too to get it off the To lift it properly, I would need both lifting eyes so last week I had a quick look at the existing eye bolt.
I 'established' it was a 1/2" UNC eye bolt I required.
I ordered two new eye bolts and they arrived a few days later. But, they did not fit, they only screwed in a few threads
I got a thread gauge out and measured the threads on the new and old eye bolts.
The new eyebolts were 1/2" 13 tpi UNC bolts.
The old one was a 1/2" 12 tpi bolt despite the fact that 'UNC' is clearly stamped on the bolt
I guess the original eye bolt is 1/2" BSW 12 tpi thread with UNC stamped on the bolt
Tonight I decided to pull the hydraulic tank out of the machine to check the state of things.
I took the front panel off.
To remove the tank, two rubber hydraulic hoses need to be disconnected and the tank can then be slid outside.
Once the tank was out, the motor could be easily disconnected.