My "new" emco v13 got dropped off yesterday. It's the long bed version, so has a bigger footprint than the one it is replacing. It seems to be the last model they made: there's a boatload of different speeds (topping at 2,500) and has a couple switches my other one did not. As a bonus it came with a Royal 5c collet assembly.
In the spirit of the holidays,the freight company this time only bent the sheet metal on the back and break the cheap shelf underneath as opposed to ripping a bunch of rods and knobs off with a forklift. I have insurance so we'll see what happens.
There's a couple of negatives. One is that the bed seems more worn than my old one at least judging by the increased torque necessary when you move the carriage from the headstock towards the tail. On the flip side, it has much much less backlash.
The other downside is that there was a non-trivial amount of surface rust on the ways and industrial gunk in all sorts of other places. I've spent the last few hours cleaning all of this off with 0000 steel wool, wd40, and brake cleaner. I had to dump a few pieces in the ultrasonic cleaner.
This one came from a real shop rather than a tech school, so the above problems are not unexpected. Still.
The main challenge was that it was over 12" in the air when the freight guy left, so tonight I spent a bunch of time lowering it and putting it where it's supposed to be.
Here's the start, around 1,500lbs way up high:
First thing is to remove the lowest pallet using a couple of handy little car jacks I got from Kragen:
Then cut away a lot of the 4x4s and then put a way-too-enthusiastic amount of wood to hold up both ends:
Eventually lower an inch at a time all the way around (using a level so it didn't get too far out of wack):
Finally lower it onto a few bars:
And then push it into the right place:
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