What are the requirements to move a Hexagon SF7107? I don't have the original shipping braces. Can I purchase new ones? Does a technician have to over see the move? Or just recalibrate it after it's moved?
I think what I would do, if I and a few others decided to move my CMM's ourselves. I would bring a couple cases of beer, buy some Red SOLO cups, so that after we move it, we can at least use the CMM as a beer pong table afterwards, because I believe that would be all it would be good for.
I've been part of two 7.10.7 moves, and one 10.22.10. One small one moved across the shop via forklift. We had Hexagon in to secure it for the move. The other moved 20 feet across the room (swapped places with the big machine basically). We did that ourselves (the little one and the big one), with heavy machinery rollers. All you need is a bottle jack, the rollers, and some 4x4s.
Any big moves that require lifting with a forklift and moving across potentially uneven terrain should certainly be done with locking brackets and by professionals.
Any move, period, should be immediately followed by calibration. (By immediately I mean after giving the machine time to settle and before using it to measure parts, not the second it's in place...)
