How I move around my heavy DIY CNC

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Hi, thanks for sharing this experience and your solution. My first reaction was that it was rather an over engineered solution, as I am rather more used to small workshop solutions like these or these. However a quick check on eBay suggests those actuators are only around £30 each and work for machines in the 200-500 kg range. Plus as you say simple switches and power supply is all you need. Now I have definitely stored this idea away should I need to move my machine regularly for pass through jobs. The satisfaction each time you flip the switch rather than lie on the floor winding up machine castors like these would hasten the pay back!

Thank you for the comments and the additional ideas of how to move machines.

I will have to keep this idea:



which I think is very good for lighter machines, but lifting a 100kg + machine is something else. I may make one for my table saw, which I also need to move in and out whenever I want to use it. Right now, I can lift it, as it weights only about 40kg, but it is not a comfortable lift because it is fixed to a stand, so to move it, I have to stretch my arms and lift it. As I am getting older, things do feel heavier...