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4th January 2021, 08:26 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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ABC Chain Hoist 1.5ton - Restoration
I am not sure what category this fits into but thought here is as good a place as any?
I've been looking at some of these pop up now and then and found one that was a good price and was not sort on the weight it could take. This one being good for 1.5 ton. I don't know the history of these but guess they were made about 80yrs - 100yrs ago? This one was rusted pretty bad and sitting on a farm out near Ipswich.
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The first thing I did was strip it down and use Double strength vinegar from Woolies to get rid of rust followed by Rust Converter:
I used some etching primer followed by some industrial paint I had. I am not expecting all the paint to stay on it but should give it some protection for quite some time. I also greased the shafts for each turning wheel.
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I am not sure of it's weight but at a guess it must be about 40kg - 45kg of iron. Lets put it this way it took a decent amount of my strength to get up hooked up on straps. I've not picked anything up with it yet but should be all good and good for operation for the next 100yrs. It's not the speediest of chain hoists as it took me a good few minutes to take up some of the length off the pickup hook.
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6th January 2021, 09:16 PM #2Senior Member
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Well done, nice to see something old new again and useable
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7th January 2021, 11:45 AM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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Thanks - I took a decent amount of time (I'd say about 8 - 10hrs in total) for something thats probably only worth $150 but it'll be a useful bit of kit for the rest of my life so what price do you put on that?
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7th January 2021, 08:12 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Charlie, I had a not totally dissimilar experience with an old snatch block. It had been sitting out in the weather in my late uncle's home for at least 50 years and goodness knows how many before that when my grandfather was alive. On picking it out of all the other rubbish the sheave amazingly moved freely!
The first thing I tried was numerous applications of penetrine to the locking flap which, to my surprise and pleasure freed up.
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So far so good. The next challenge was the swivel which was rusted solid. Again, many more applications of penetrine before the engineers hammer came out. I then started giving the swivel half a dozen or so taps in either direction along with more penetrine. It took many weeks but eventually a crack in the rust 'weld' appeared. Then out came the club hammer and more penetrine. Slowly but surely the crack increased in length around the circumference and movements slowly happened. Eventually this is what happened.
Unfortunately my video doesn't upload, but trust me it now spins freely.
This is now what it looks like. I will probably take the sandblaster to it and then some paint, probably a bit more sombre than Charlie's though!
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7th January 2021, 11:21 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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9th February 2021, 08:25 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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huon_pine_fan thats a stunning bit of iron! Looking forward to it restored
aarggh, Perhaps it was a bit more than 10hrs. I did it up over the course of a few weekends:
1hr to pull it apart
4hrs sandblasting
2hrs wire brushing the chains once they came out of the rust remover solution
4hrs of painting inclusive of undercoat
1hr to assemble
I've often thought about doing one of those rusty tools restoration YouTube channels - Some guys get over 2.5million views which is insane!
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9th February 2021, 08:47 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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Yeah, I know what you mean, I'm working on a leg vise at the moment, I reckon at my rate if I streamed it I could make it go for about 2-3 seasons worth! ;-)
Not so squeezy cleaning a hundred years of gunk of pitted and slightly rusty stuff without destroying some of it's features. Although so far the cleaning has revealed a really nice makers mark and a serial number, which were completely hidden prior!
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