Generally, most of the day-today lifting in a model engineering workshop requires little effort, beyond the handling of tools and materials during the manufacture of many small parts. As a project grows, however, these parts can form into a single, bulky lump of considerable weight, needing a lot of man-handling. During the later stages of a complete refurbishment of my 3 1/2-inch gauge 'Britannia' locomotive, I routinely dragged it, in its crate weighing a total of 46kg, from my garage, through into the workshop and then lifted it manually onto the workbench so that I could work on it. Then, if I needed the bench space for other things, I had to reverse the procedure to return it to the garage.
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