hello all , im looking to buy a centec 2b , ive been looking a
previous post on centecs and used a link to the manual . can the 2b b unbolted from its pedestal for transporting ? i drive a swb isuz trooper and am wondering about the possibillity of stripping one to fi in the back of the car ? any thoughts
I moved a Centec 2A in the back of a Vauxhall Omega estate and there were no problems in clearance on height or width, and there's not much difference in dimensions apart from the table length.
I've had a look at pictures of an Izuzu SWB Trooper and the worry might be the amount of room available between the back of the seats and the rear door. In the Vauxhall, with the back seats down, I had about six feet length.
You could take the knee and the table off the mill to decrease the depth of the machine. In the 2A you take the table off, disconnect the knee lifting screw, release the gib, and the knee lifts off the dovetails - about a ten minute job. I would suspect that a similar job on the 2B is just as straightforward.
I've got a 2B and a few months ago I helped a friend remove another 2B from a cellar workshop. When I got mine I just unbolted the column/table assembly from the base and transported the whole thing in two pieces. Both sections are heavy, and the base is cumbersome 'cos the swarf tray is welded to it.
When we got the 2B out of the cellar workshop it was necessary to remove the table from the knee. The table of the 2B is quite a bit bigger and heavier than the one on the 2A, and makes the whole assemble rather unwieldy. Removing it took us rather longer than 10 minutes, mainly because we had the find the trick: removing the feed-screw is not enough. You have to remove the gib-strip that guides the Y-axis, and to do this you have to remove the little slide-locking screw, which, in our case, was a small ball-handle that could only be removed by first removing the X-axis feed-screw half-nut assembly.
Don't rush it, take your time. The 2B is a great little miller. We've fitted VFD to both the main motor and table drive on both machines. It made a great machine even better.
Also, in my case I had to have a substantial plank and a some short bits of scaffolding pole to roll the body in and out of the back of the estate. The height and the width of the back door precluded the use of any other type of lifting gear.
Also, on the Centec, other bits that come off easily are the vertical head/horizontal overarm which would reduce the overall height, as well as the weight.
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