bench lathe and milling machine at seventh floor

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balcmachinist

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• Jun 5, 2019

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Hello everyone,
I just bought a new office in seventh floor, and i wonder if i can run a small lathe (max 60-70 kg) and a milling machine of same dimension?
wabeco products come in mind....

thanks

 

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ripperj

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• Jun 5, 2019

• #2

Why not?
Those sound like hobby machines? This thread will probably get locked as this is a professional forum


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lucky7

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• Jun 5, 2019

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The University I work at had a Colchester Chipmaster and a mid sized Pedersen mill in a shop on the sixth floor of a physiology research building for forty years. The mill had some use, the lathe virtually none, that is until it followed me home... :-)

Methinks what matters in your case is the capacity of the elevator, floors, and tolerance of neighbors to noise, vibration, and fumes.

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memphisjed

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• Jun 5, 2019

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there are full size swiss machines on a fifth floor cranking out spines down the street from here.
The machines you listed are not heavier than normal office load for the floor. books are heavy, aquariums are heavy.

 

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balcmachinist

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• Jun 18, 2019

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Thank you very much.
Well, idea would be to make studies/prototypes of smalls dimensions in engineer's nylon...so it will not be very disturbing
additionally, tehy are very silent machines.
thank you very much any way gentlemen.

 

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balcmachinist

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• Jun 18, 2019

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ripperj said:

Why not?
Those sound like hobby machines? This thread will probably get locked as this is a professional forum


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i have seen wabeco machines in some very serious, and clasified R&D places. and users were very happy with them....

i intend to use them professionally, so...

 

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lucky7

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Perhaps you meant 'use them professionally'? Sue them has a slightly different meaning to Americans... ;-)

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Ries

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• Jun 18, 2019

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there was a knife maker in Berlin who used a Haas Office Mill (now replaced by the CM-1) in his upper story workshop. Not sure if he craned it in thru a window, but with removing a few parts, they will fit thru a 1 meter doorway.

 

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• Jun 18, 2019

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lucky7 said:

Perhaps you meant 'use them professionally'? Sue them has a slightly different meaning to Americans... ;-)

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sorry corrected

 

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balcmachinist

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• Jun 18, 2019

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Ries said:

there was a knife maker in Berlin who used a Haas Office Mill (now replaced by the CM-1) in his upper story workshop. Not sure if he craned it in thru a window, but with removing a few parts, they will fit thru a 1 meter doorway.

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thank you Sir,
i was confused for the weight...or better, my niece, an architect at first year ofwork sort of confused me .... building here can carry 250-300 kg for meter square... i am 105 kg, machine with its stand would be around 100-130 kg but i can use a lighter weight table ...

thank you very much any way...i will give it a try

 

West-7

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• Jun 18, 2019

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Wabeco are still toys albeit expensive and precise ones.

You can get a nice used hlvh for the price of their largest lathe.

What are you going to be making?

 

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balcmachinist

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• Jun 19, 2019

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West-7 said:

Wabeco are still toys albeit expensive and precise ones.

You can get a nice used hlvh for the price of their largest lathe.

What are you going to be making?

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i am a retired military man working on defense industry.
i design optic attachments mostly for eastern block and cold war time weapons....mostly i would be making prototypes in engineer's nylon ...then i have a good friend who has a small shop with 2 cnc gildemeister machines and he can do the "real"protoypes for me.

i was thinking to buy a Tos Mn80, i cosnder it at same level with Schaublin.
last week there was one in czech republic ebay, for 3.500 euro, made in 1964 never ever used...i lost for few hours. i could buy a schaublin 12 mill.too but problem is i have only monofase 220 v in this building...

 

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• Jun 19, 2019

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West-7 said:

Wabeco are still toys albeit expensive and precise ones.

You can get a nice used hlvh for the price of their largest lathe.

What are you going to be making?

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well wabecos in europe are less expensive, additionally, they do not have an importer in albania so i would buy directly from factory as company.
i contacted cyclematic, and i am still thinking about the clone of hardinge...they qouted 20.000 usd to me.
i was thinking to travel and visit the factory, as i am lot of times 2-3 hrs flight far from taiwan