Thread: drummond b restoration

A bit more progress. Their is a paper shim under the head stock.





The number on the bed means it was built in 1914





This is the worst part of the bed





As you would expect the casting quality is lovely

What do you use to strip the paint back?

Originally Posted by Charlie_6ft

What do you use to strip the paint back?

Just scraped it off with an old chisel, sharpened every so often. generally people dont prep a machine to be hand painted properly so it comes off easily.

Gotcha - sounds somewhat easier than man handling a angle grinder with a twisted wire brush wheel!

Cheers
Charl

I would use a chemical paint stripper, one tip is to paint the stripper on quite thick, then cover in plastic.
An leave it for 15/20 minutes.
Then scrap of with a plastic scraper.

Cheers Matt.

A bit of aluminium bodge to level things up a bit








The head stock and back gear shaft





One thing that has really impressed me is the quality of the castings, straight out of mould with no fettling





A previous owner has put a row of 3 sealed bearings in one side of the head stock, they are japanese so might be good quality





One thing I'm undecided is what colour to do this. Should I stay original and paint it black or my usual grey with red innards. I should I get a bit crazy, I've always liked the colour of coronet lathes.
I always had an itch to line a machine, like what was done on big stationary engines like crosleys.

Progressing nicely .

Originally Posted by wallace1973

...One thing I'm undecided is what colour to do this. Should I stay original and paint it black or my usual grey with red innards. I should I get a bit crazy, I've always liked the colour of coronet lathes.
I always had an itch to line a machine, like what was done on big stationary engines like crosleys.

My vote is: go with something different. Leave the Wadkins in their sea of grey (and red) and make this one obviously different.

Cheers, Vann.

Can I put in a request for HOT PINK like Bruce Kenneth's Wadkin PK? It'll accentuate those lovely curves.

WadkinPKsawPINK.jpg

I dont think Im as brave as Bruce

Originally Posted by wallace1973

I dont think Im as brave as Bruce

That's a relief .

When I suggested something other than Wadkin grey, i DID NOT MEAN PINK.

Cheers, Vann .

This is the back of the apron, I dont have a clue what its supposed to look like but theirs been some tinkering





I took the motor and switch off, its quite a nice thing. I have a nice little 3 phase brooks motor that will be perfect for this. I'm going to rig it up through a vfd








Did a bit aluminium filler





And made some bits nice and clean





I stuck the chuck in some evaporust and then wire wheeled it








For the life of me I couldnt get the lead screw to bits, I thought it would either unscrew or just slip off. But I could not get it to move. It spins freely





Why would a head stock need to moved out of line





I ordered some paint and I think there must of been a failure to communicate, I asked for RAL 3O32 which is a dark ruby red, but what I got was 3O22 which is salmon pink. It looks more like orange to me

Originally Posted by wallace1973

I ordered some paint and I think there must of been a failure to communicate, I asked for RAL 3O32 which is a dark ruby red, but what I got was 3O22 which is salmon pink. It looks more like orange to me

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Ordered RAL 6011 (Reseda Green) and received RAL 3011 (Brown Red)!

I wasn't expecting for this little lump to take so long. I thought I'd do some bits in black oxide, luckily the old bottle of solution is still working.








I have so little space I'm spraying on top of a machine that has been waiting to be collected for a few months.








I found this nice little motor in my stash.











I want to use a vfd for speed control so got my motor guy to dig out the star point and make it 2OOv

Originally Posted by wallace1973

...I found this nice little motor in my stash.





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That is one classic motor. I'd be proud to have that on any vintage machine of mine. I sure hope it works okay with the VFD.

Cheers, Vann.