Grizzly G4003G lathe

[Jdaniel343]

I was wondering how much assembly there is to the Grizzly G4003G lathe.
Does it come mostly assembled?
I am also wondering how others would move this lathe to the basement.
I have a wide stair case and pretty good access getting the lathe in to the house. I plan on putting this lathe in a basement bedroom (gunshop, reloading room).
I though of just using 4x4 skids on the stairs with some sort of winch etc at the top of the stair case.
I will use a engine lift once in the basement to get it on the stand.
Any other ideas?

 

[WisFinnlander]

Grizzly 4003

jdaniel343,
Put mine in the basement about a year and one half ago. Screwed 2x10s to the step noses (3 of them). Rolled the lathe on its skid with the heavy end upout over the stairs untill it came over center. We tailed mine with a skid steer but a cumalong or anything like a double wrap with a rope around anything solid will work fine. There was very little pressure on our tailing. When the tailstock end got to the bottom we put it on a four caster dollie, let the lathe come untill we got a small floor jack under the head and wheeled right down into position under the beam. Picked the lathe with two cumalongs high enough to slide the bases under then the chip pan and let it down enough to catch the bolts, then down the rest of the way. I then leveled and shimmed, mixed up about 50# of no shrink grout and let it set before I pulled up the eight nuts. I drilled my anchors after the grout had set but is a real pain, best would be to mark them out after bolting the stand on, bar or move the lathe drill the holes reposition and drive in the anchors. Then you can put on the splash pan etc. The lathe itself is all together. I really like mine, tailstock came too high but some lapping and fitting it is fine. Have fun. Dale

 

[alinwa]

I was wondering how much assembly there is to the Grizzly G4003G lathe.
Does it come mostly assembled?
I am also wondering how others would move this lathe to the basement.
I have a wide stair case and pretty good access getting the lathe in to the house. I plan on putting this lathe in a basement bedroom (gunshop, reloading room).
I though of just using 4x4 skids on the stairs with some sort of winch etc at the top of the stair case.
I will use a engine lift once in the basement to get it on the stand.
Any other ideas?

Crawl under your stairs and look at the jacks carefully. Make sure it'll support the weight.

Assy of the lathe is easy peasy.

al

 

[cpeters]

Crawl under your stairs and look at the jacks carefully. Make sure it'll support the weight.

Assy of the lathe is easy peasy.

al

I agree, the company I work for we had a large power supply that weighed about 2000 pounds that needed to come out of a basement, we had open steps as many unfinished basements do....they temporarily reinforced it with many 2x4 and 2x8 braces from the floor as insurance. They then put it on a sled and winched it up the stairs.

Sure would be a bad thing for stairs to collaps.

Charlie