Moving Jasmine

Well I bought Jasmine about ½ a year ago.  I finally got up to moving her.  She is a Yamazen 5BVK CNC knee mill.  She was named Jasmine by my wife who for the life of her could not remember Yamazen.   I kinda like having a Jasmine in the shop.  Sounds way sexier that it should.  Onto the move.

good and cheap, what more can you ask for?

Once again I went to sunbelt rentals and had Shaun hook me up with a tiltbed trailer.  If anyone is ever thinking of moving anything, I highly recommend the tiltbed trailer.  It  makes that much of a difference.  I then swung by Ace hardware and bought the “blue bitch”, which is a large engine hoist with shitty caster wheels.  I brought my rollers, and my bag o tools, including a ryobi 18volt cordless set.    This is another must have thing when moving equipment.  You never know when you will need to cut a wedge or drill a hole/hack something off.

I removed the servos and bits and pieces from the mill.  I left the lube and mister attached, I didn’t want to create an environmental disaster on the way home.  First thing was to remove the variable speed head.  Three bolts attach the head to the fixed ram.

can you find the nut?

  The first is located behind the front panel,second is on the right side access panel.The third is in a blind spot with access through the fixed ram, what fun. 

tghe blue bitch doing her thing

Once the bolts were removed it the blue bitch was hooked up and as the queen of hearts would say...

Next was the fixed ram, the bolts were easier to find, but dam hard to loosen, thank you channel lock for making the “nut buster”.

IT made short work of the stuck allen head bolts.  If you don’t mind marred surfaces , and at the time I didn’t, they are fantastic.  So next was the fixed ram, which balanced well also, and was pretty easy to take off.

After that the based was rolled on using the old eqyptian method of rollers, prybars and muscle.  Once it was on the tilt bed, it was smooth sailing with a come-along.  Unload was done in the middle of the night, so no pictures, sufice it to say it was a long night.