Moving a Myford Super 7 - what spanners?

I though I had better start a new thread for this aspect, if I am not trespassing too much on members' patience and good will after the great response to my previous question on 'transportability', if you remember that.

What will be needed to undo the bolts that hold the lathe to its original Myford stand?

Likewise, what will be needed to unbolt the electric motor, if that seems necessary? And is this a job that could go wrong, quite apart from the need to record where the wires go?

It may not help that this is a later Super 7 (but not the very last of the line), green in colour, and that I am told that it is possible it had a metric conversion carried out (the present owner knows very little about it all, her late husband being the real owner and an engineer). I don't really know, however, exactly what a metric conversion might have entailed

I don't wish to turn up 200 miles away without the correct tool kit, if someone could be so kind as to tell me what is required. I have a fairly full metric set of spanners and sockets (and somewhere an AF set), and metric and imperial Allen keys, but I have a nasty feeling I may need BA and/or BSF spanners - am I right? (I used to have a Whitworth set when I had a P4 Rover many years ago, but I gave it away.)

Roger

They probably are Whitworth/BSF but I've always managed with my AF and metric sets with my ML7 here in Canada. (Good thing too .... unlikely to find BSW/BSF around here).

Edited By Bandersnatch on 31/08/2015 22:10:04

Since you wish to just remove the lathe from the stand, a simple adjustable spanner will get you a long way. The nuts are accessible and you need to remove the nuts and lift the bed off the raising blocks.

Roger,

This is for an earlier model ... but may be useful bedtime reading.

MichaelG.

Picked up my super 7 on saturday, just removed the four bolts holding it to the fixed raising blocks (old industrial stand) and removed plate from rear of motor (2 ph screws) disconnected 4 wires inside after taking photo of them for re-connection (4 x 8mm nuts using socket or nut runner) and loosened cable clamp to pull cable from motor . Your motor may be slightly different of course and you may want to remove motor to make it a few pounds lighter but we decided not to. Thats all we did before the 2 of us lifted it into my discovery, the ind stand was almost as heavy as the lathe btw!

Thank you all very much for your helpful replies.

Roger