Just a short update. If all goes well on Monday will be putting in an offer on Lot in Virgil Ontario. Lot is 63ftwide by 200ft long and has all city services at the lot line. This will allow me to build a nice house with a decent sized garage. Only real issue is that I most likely will not get possession of the lot until Mid August which means I will not be in the house until late this year. This means not much more restoration news until very late this year or early next year once the garage is usable.
This weekend will be taking the first of at least three loads by truck and trailer down to the Virgil area. I planned on moving all my tooling and the things the movers will not take and let them do the rest of the house. So yesterday I loaded up the #86 lathe into the back of the pickup truck and this morning I loaded the Van Norman #10 mill and a snowblower. Here are a couple of pictures showing the load.

Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn we'll be off down the 401 to St Catharines to drop all this stuff off in my Mom's garage. Unfortunately I the storage facility that I want to use in Virgil is full up and will not have a unit available until end May. This means my next load will be beginning of June hopefully straight into the storage facility. This load will stay in my Mom's garage until either the house is ready or I need to move it due winter approaching.
One thing to relate on the restoration front. It's amazing the things you find out when you take things apart especially if you have two of the same machines to compare to each other. When I restored the #39 the crossfeed nut which is a Bronze alloy was secured to the crossfeed assembly by a plain old bolt. When I was disassembling the carriage for moving I noticed that there was a screw in the bolt on this carriage. I initially thought this might be a locking screw assembly however upon removal and clearing the bolt head. I noticed the word "Oil" on the bolt head. After removal I noticed a hole completely through the bolt to allow oil to be inserted to oil the crossfeed thread. So evidently on the #39 either somebody lost this nut or damaged it and replaced it with a plain old bolt. I guess when I am up and running will need to make a bolt similar to the one from the #86 for the #39.
Well all the best and enjoy the coming months. The weather is finally starting to get warm here such that the neighbourhood kids were even playing with soaker guns yesterday. Hurray for warm weather.

Harold