25-02-2012, 05:27 PM
Hi,
I've since seen your stripped transformer Joe and it's come up nice and clean after being baked and scrubbed; well done so far; now for the hard part in re-winding it.
Many thanks John for your kind comments. Yes the cabinet came up well in the end but I know you also achieve similar results and I hope between us and others who like to restore "Woody" cabinets that we can encourage others to have a go; the end result is well worth the effort put in.
At the moment I'm up to my neck in lathe restorations (two) and fear these are going to turn into a saga as there is a lot of work required on each of them. I'm currently hand scraping the paint from the beds then hopefully early next week they go to be re-ground. I might add the story onto the forum as work in progress.
Once I settle down a bit I'll also try to add a few notes on transformer winding.
I'd like to spend a lot more time on the forum as I keep missing things but being retired is a full time job with masses of overtime.
Kind regards, Col.
I've since seen your stripped transformer Joe and it's come up nice and clean after being baked and scrubbed; well done so far; now for the hard part in re-winding it.
Many thanks John for your kind comments. Yes the cabinet came up well in the end but I know you also achieve similar results and I hope between us and others who like to restore "Woody" cabinets that we can encourage others to have a go; the end result is well worth the effort put in.
At the moment I'm up to my neck in lathe restorations (two) and fear these are going to turn into a saga as there is a lot of work required on each of them. I'm currently hand scraping the paint from the beds then hopefully early next week they go to be re-ground. I might add the story onto the forum as work in progress.
Once I settle down a bit I'll also try to add a few notes on transformer winding.
I'd like to spend a lot more time on the forum as I keep missing things but being retired is a full time job with masses of overtime.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
