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Whatsup Model C buddy   Mine is a couple years older than yours, it has the oiler style with the 'gits' on the top - didn't pull the ID card but serial number math says it was late 30's. Working on re-assembling now after a full tear-down and rebuild if you have any questions! With some care there's no reason these can't hold tolerance to match a new Chinese lathe. Had a blast with the restore, getting to the home stretch:  Motronic posted:I'm gonna need a chip tray, so it may just end up being a welding project to make a purpose built chip tray/table. in the mean time, Wal-Mart sells oil drip pans that fit perfectly under the bed. Dirty Beluga fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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garbage pail is a lot easier for big parts: Mine had a thick coating of gunk over a rough coat of original paint, electrolysis made short work of getting all the parts shiny!  Your ways are in very good shape, a couple dings near the chuck are to be expected - little imperfections are not going to bother the accuracy. If you had more time I'd def recommend adding hardener to the paint, I had Sherwin Williams color match their oil based enamel - it is night and day durability the parts with and without. Motronic posted:It's playing the game between not letting the ways rust and not contaminating what I'm painting. slap me silly posted:Holy poo poo, you don't choose small projects huh. And there are apparently two other people in the thread who also did this? It's a mad mad world old lathes are cool as hell <3 Dirty Beluga fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Mar 10, 2016 |
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an old computer power supply works fine for electrolysis. 12V at whatever amps cleaned most of the lathe bed in a day. Steel electrical conduit / computer case panels are great electrodes too, if a magnet sticks to it you're good. Dirty Beluga fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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sharkytm posted:PC Power supplies aren't designed to be shorted, which is what this is effectively doing. Not really shorting them unless the chunk of metal your de-rusting touches one of the electrodes. There's basically no conductivity until you add an electrolyte, once you add some and put a chunk of rusty greasy metal in there it's not perfectly conductive either - its a resistive load. A car battery charger is perfect if you have one around, if not a PC supply works great and someone usually has one for free.
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looking great!
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