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Old 01-01-2016, 04:40 AM
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A mate of mine has a Lathe that's about 12 foot long and probably weighs 4 tons. We moved it across his workshop floor rolling on lengths of pipe. The jib crane on the truck that unloaded it couldn't extend out far enough with that weight to get it any where close to where it was going to be situated in the workshop.

The mill is powered up and running. I've been trying to teach myself to program it and it's been good fun so far.

Nearly got the air system run in today. I'm using Sharkbite PEX tubing and push on fittings to run the air reticulation in the shed. It's designed for house plumbing water and is rated to about 200PSI which should be fine for the 120PSI from the compressor.

Here's some info on it.
Sharkbite

Sharkbite Engineering specs

No special tools required and the connectors just push to connect. Thy can be easily disconnected to rearrange or add extra pipes in.

Gav put me onto the idea of using the plastic plumbing pipe for air reticulation but I think he used a different system that has crimp on ends.

I'll give you a full report once it's up and running.

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