wallace
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Not to rest on my laurels, I thought it would be nice to start this monster. I've been after one of these for a long time but I am very cheap so didn't want to pay top dollar. I got an email from a guy who said he had seen one in scrap dealers yard, and hated to see it go for scrap. He kindly got me the dealers contact and I rang immediately. The price was cheap at £800 but it was about 170miles away.
I said I'd have it so then set about figuring out how to get it home. I didn't trust a courier to handle the bed because its 3m long. In the end I took the seats out of my vw and went to collect the bed and carriage etc. I put the headstock on a pallet for a courier. The bed just fit under the passenger footwell and I could close the tailgate.
The guy had an overhead crane so it was easy loading it. I had an engine hoist and a pump truck. The bed weighs around 750kg.
Its been sat in my garden for quite a while smothered in waxoyle and sheeted, I wont be able to bring it in untill the FM I did last year goes. I'm hoping it will be soon.
Its hard to illustrate just how big this thing is. Thats a wadkin RS10 tailstock next to the RU one.
I had to use the oxy/propane to warm the tailstock up and hit the quill with a big hammer
The carriage is huge
But its not in bad shape
This bit is the gears for moving the bed, its been repaired before. I think I will ask mr doubleboost to do a proper job
No pitting on the ways, just surface rust.
I said I'd have it so then set about figuring out how to get it home. I didn't trust a courier to handle the bed because its 3m long. In the end I took the seats out of my vw and went to collect the bed and carriage etc. I put the headstock on a pallet for a courier. The bed just fit under the passenger footwell and I could close the tailgate.
The guy had an overhead crane so it was easy loading it. I had an engine hoist and a pump truck. The bed weighs around 750kg.
Its been sat in my garden for quite a while smothered in waxoyle and sheeted, I wont be able to bring it in untill the FM I did last year goes. I'm hoping it will be soon.
Its hard to illustrate just how big this thing is. Thats a wadkin RS10 tailstock next to the RU one.
I had to use the oxy/propane to warm the tailstock up and hit the quill with a big hammer
The carriage is huge
But its not in bad shape
This bit is the gears for moving the bed, its been repaired before. I think I will ask mr doubleboost to do a proper job
No pitting on the ways, just surface rust.