Rick_H wrote: If you look the mill and stand are in the background of his pic. As long as its stable, that thing has to be 1000lbs. How often do you plan on moving it?
The leveling legs make it 3" wider than just the base that comes with it. With the leveling legs up, it's about 8" wider on the casters. The mill is 1100 lbs and the base that comes with it is 300 lbs . I looked at commercially avail mobile bases that are $500+ and just over engineered mine.
I figure I've got just my time and about $20 invested in this thing. Maybe $35 if I add flap wheels, cut off discs,
TIG rod and argon...
I looked at one a guy built that had a 2000+ Lbs Bridgeport on it, same 1/4" angle and "C" channel with casters, but I added the strong backs across the bottom and sides. When I got the 2 ton engine hoist here, I felt a lot better seeing my base has around twice the thickness all around as the hoist...and that hoist held this thing 4 feet out and it's telescope arm which was maybe 3/16" ...it was quite a nail biting experience.
I put my 4 ft level across it left to Right and back to front and there was no flex . Two people can roll it about the same effort as pushing a large safe around , but not one guy...nope . I plan on moving it out maybe once a year to clean ? idk . Most people that own this series of mill seem to like it raised up anywhere from 3 to 6" , or whatever puts the top of the table level with your elbow when standing ...so after a little research into peoples height and how much they raised theirs, I settled on 3" of lift. And I figured while i'm building this, I might as well make it mobile.
Thanks guys for the kind words !
I don't have it all set up yet but here it is on the mobile base . Last pic is my sons that helped.
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