Hi,
Well done on your blasting booth Colin and for maintaining the Yorkshire man's image; I like it. I might end up using the garage as a blasting booth because once the job is finished I can sweep up the bulk of the debris and blow the rest onto the driveway with the airline. By the time I assemble a booth and drag the lathe out I'll be too tired to blast?
Joe kindly let me use his lathe a while ago and yes it did feel strange having a carriage hand-wheel geared backwards so concentration was called for working near the chuck. Nice old drills Big Al; just like you; built to last.
Even if your Colchester Student lathe looks rough m1ecy it is still a top quality lathe built to last for years. A guillotine will be very handy for sheet metal work and an asset to your workshop but do you use it a lot because these tend to take up space? David (Yorkie) was disposing of his sheet metal folder and very generously gave it to me as a gift; I've used it and now it is stored under the bungalow for when needed again. I enjoy restoring good old machines as much as I enjoy using them; I can't settle with either an untidy work area or scruffy looking machine/tools.
I plan to use oil based machinery enamel too Alan D; such paint is becoming both difficult and expensive to source but best quality enamel looks the part on old machinery. My preferred choice of paint would be cellulose because it goes on rapidly with spray-gun and dries extremely quickly in fact the undercoat can be applied in the morning then the top coat can be applied in the afternoon whereas oil based paint takes a lot more time. Unfortunately I can seldom use my spray-guns due to the weather; it's not nice to spray something black in cellulose only to watch as it turns white due to blooming and this with top quality anti-bloom thinners. I can brush apply the enamel in my enclosed garage whatever the weather is doing outside.
Moving heavy machines around in a home workshop is as you say Refugee very fiddly but with patience and using nothing but steel tubes as rollers and a decent lever I used to move my Colchester and Dominion lathes around quite easily once they were on the rollers; it is much more difficult though working on my own whilst trying to place packing and applying pressure to the lever; it pays to keep fingers and toes out of the way. Day in and day out at I used to lift heavy electric motors by just pressing a few buttons or pulling a couple of levers; overhead cranes and fork-trucks are just brilliant for this type of work; I can only dream of having a workshop large enough to accommodate heavy lifting kit.
Bron and I have just returned from a trip over to Colne only 38 miles away; two hours outbound and 1.5 hours inbound; almost every traffic light was amber/red as we approached and workmen were practicing digging holes at every street corner with of course the usual amber/red traffic lights. I don't feel like venturing into the garage today but plan to make a start first thing tomorrow morning; I want to get the bandsaw sorted because too many things have been preventing me from completing its restoration; I need to get a grip.
The knob certainly looks like a scope knob;
http://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/telequip/d43/d43.htm
Kind regards, Col.
Well done on your blasting booth Colin and for maintaining the Yorkshire man's image; I like it. I might end up using the garage as a blasting booth because once the job is finished I can sweep up the bulk of the debris and blow the rest onto the driveway with the airline. By the time I assemble a booth and drag the lathe out I'll be too tired to blast?
Joe kindly let me use his lathe a while ago and yes it did feel strange having a carriage hand-wheel geared backwards so concentration was called for working near the chuck. Nice old drills Big Al; just like you; built to last.
Even if your Colchester Student lathe looks rough m1ecy it is still a top quality lathe built to last for years. A guillotine will be very handy for sheet metal work and an asset to your workshop but do you use it a lot because these tend to take up space? David (Yorkie) was disposing of his sheet metal folder and very generously gave it to me as a gift; I've used it and now it is stored under the bungalow for when needed again. I enjoy restoring good old machines as much as I enjoy using them; I can't settle with either an untidy work area or scruffy looking machine/tools.
I plan to use oil based machinery enamel too Alan D; such paint is becoming both difficult and expensive to source but best quality enamel looks the part on old machinery. My preferred choice of paint would be cellulose because it goes on rapidly with spray-gun and dries extremely quickly in fact the undercoat can be applied in the morning then the top coat can be applied in the afternoon whereas oil based paint takes a lot more time. Unfortunately I can seldom use my spray-guns due to the weather; it's not nice to spray something black in cellulose only to watch as it turns white due to blooming and this with top quality anti-bloom thinners. I can brush apply the enamel in my enclosed garage whatever the weather is doing outside.
Moving heavy machines around in a home workshop is as you say Refugee very fiddly but with patience and using nothing but steel tubes as rollers and a decent lever I used to move my Colchester and Dominion lathes around quite easily once they were on the rollers; it is much more difficult though working on my own whilst trying to place packing and applying pressure to the lever; it pays to keep fingers and toes out of the way. Day in and day out at I used to lift heavy electric motors by just pressing a few buttons or pulling a couple of levers; overhead cranes and fork-trucks are just brilliant for this type of work; I can only dream of having a workshop large enough to accommodate heavy lifting kit.
Bron and I have just returned from a trip over to Colne only 38 miles away; two hours outbound and 1.5 hours inbound; almost every traffic light was amber/red as we approached and workmen were practicing digging holes at every street corner with of course the usual amber/red traffic lights. I don't feel like venturing into the garage today but plan to make a start first thing tomorrow morning; I want to get the bandsaw sorted because too many things have been preventing me from completing its restoration; I need to get a grip.
The knob certainly looks like a scope knob;
http://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/telequip/d43/d43.htm
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
