I was going to put the weight at just under 3000lbs - It *can* go in a basement, but *should* it go there? 
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LATHE, HERBERT MINOR 10" x 22". $2250 - Stoney Creek
- Thread starter Brent H
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Bill Perkins
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Well yeah, it could but I've heard of only one person crazy enough to actually put, say, a LeBlond in a basement. And then there is the guy who actually dug it out of there, pretty much unaided if I heard the tale correctly.I was going to put the weight at just under 3000lbs - It *can* go in a basement, but *should* it go there?
-- nice to see you back, @Bill Perkins
There is a guy I know in Brampton who put a 10ee in the basement (no longer there,was sold). He went through the garage floor and tunnelled. Cover plates of steel made the garage floor still usable and a chainfall and gantry system did the lifting. I admire his no-compromise attitude but you'd have to be young and a bit crazy to be up for it, a LOT of work and potentially impactful on resale value. Nice old boy, real craftsman, was a toolmaker at Spar Aerospace.