Dismantling and re-assembling System 4000

[Not your average framer]

I don't want to do this, but it is becoming clear that to move my System 4000 into my back room I will need to dismantle it.

Has anyone else ever had to do this?

I suspect that there are some bits best not dismatled, can anyone advise?

Also is it possible for one person to dismantle and re-assemble it?

I don't think this is going to be a fun thing to do!
Thanks in anticipation.

[osgood]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a 'System 4000'?

A chain saw will make quick work of enlarging the doorway so you could fit it through! ;o)) ;o))

[neiljustframes]

not your average framer, dismantling the system4000 is quite easy, if you have your keencut manual just follow the installation section and reverse, if not ask the kind people at keencut for a copy or advise.

[Not your average framer]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a 'System 4000'?

Hi Ormond,

It's a Keencut wall mounted glass and board cutter.

[osgood]

OIC, well my chain saw suggestion still stands.......make the doorway bigger!

I bought a new electric chainsaw just recently. Only cost $69, but I haven't used it yet!


PS. I do my best gardening with a bottle of 'Round Up' and a chainsaw!

[kev@frames]

Hi
yes we've moved ours through (so far) four shops.

Mostly single handed take apart and put back together.

How you do it (the easy way) is like this:

First remove the boards.

Now ruin a good vacuum over it, because when you start taking it apart all manner of miniscule glass fragments etc will fall out :-/

Lower it as far as it will go (leg adjustments) - no point in making it difficult

remove the lower (main) rail first. It weighs, at a guess, 25 or 30 kg (?) no more than a half bag of coal, so you weill be fine. best to lower it as far down as it will go, so that its only a couple of inches from the floor.
unbolt the small bolts left and right, then the two large central ones, supporting the weight and the whole thing will plop off.

It is a good plan at this stage to remove the weight from the pulley, just to save it clanking about. And lock the board cutting head down to keep the turret head still at the bottom.

Now, with it leaning against the wall, loosen the top bolts holding the legs pull the two legs towards you, leaving the back (upright) against the wall, move em away from the wall till the bottom of the upright is sitting on the floor.

Now you can undo the bolts holding the legs one at a time.

Now you have the whole thing in four metal parts (two legas, upright and base rail) and two boards, ready to move. This is how a new one comes to you in the box

Re-assembly, squaring up etc is as per the manual

Its far easier with two people, but not that much of a mission single handed.

[kev@frames]

Did i mistype "ruin a good vacuum all over it"... hmm. I meant run, but on second thoughts.....

[Not your average framer]

Hi Kev,

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I didn't get to do it after all, as I appear to have developed a wheat intolerance problem over Christmas and I am not feeling very well right now. It's a problem which runs in my family and I'm just the latest one to get it.

To quote Robert Burns and his "best laid plans of mice and men", right now it ain't gonna happen. Oh well!

[Spit]

Celiac? I have a neighbour with the same problem. Eats the wrong flavour packet of crisps and is laid up for days......

[Not your average framer]

Celiac?

I'm affraid so. The warning signs have been there for years, doing something about it is another matter, but now I have to. Oh well, I'm at the start of yet another learning curve. Happy new year to all.