New Bridgeport Tools

[Boucher]

Sometime back I bought a Wheel Chair lift at a garage sale. I Made a bracket to bolt it onto a storage shelf. Loading the Big rotary table and 8" vice should be as easy as pushing a switch. The size and adjustabality features of this lift is really well suited to this application.

The mill is shown with its new Kurt Power Drawbar. I can allready tell that I am going to enjoy using this.

[gwilson]

Hope that shelf is heavier than it looks! 8" vise!!!

[Carld]

Have you tried it yet? The bracket looks like it needs some support at the angle iron on the bottom. Maybe a triangle gusset.

[macona]

Bolt that shelving unit to the wall!

[Braindead]

Good idea.

Proof that: Chance favors the prepared mind.

[Boucher]

The shelf is 2’ X 4’ With 3” X 3” X 3/16” angle for the legs and 1” sq tubing for the 3/4" wood shelves. It is heavy! The bracket is a bolted together assembly of the factory lift bracket, a 5” X 7” X 3/16” plate and a 7” X 3” X 3” X 3/16” angle. This is bolted to the shelf with 4 3/8” standard grade bolts. (Probably the weak link in this system) I doubt that it needs it but I will probably bolt the shelving unit to the floor. I will finish the wiring and put the vice back on the mill soon.

[andy_b]

i first thought that shelf looked kind of flimsy as well, then i realized that the Bridgeport mill looks about 4' tall next to it. i think that shelf is much bigger than it looks.

andy b.

[pcarpenter]

It's not so much the weight of the items that might bend the bracket or tip the shelf....it's the lever they will be swinging from that makes it iffy.

As for the shelves themselves, if you ever run out of raw materials, just take that back apart and you could build yourself a bridge

Paul

[aboard_epsilon]

bet thats bolted to a wooden studded wall ..

i would not even bolt it to as brick-wall without a huge steel plate the other side of it ..

you got leverage working against you there ..it may fall off in the near future .

all the best.markj