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3rd June 2012, 05:14 PM #31Awaiting Email Confirmation
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Simon,
purchased an aussie made paint system comparable to POR 15.
RustSeal by KBS Coatings - Stop Rust with our Paint / Sealer
finished prepping the headstock and waiting for it to completely dry.
should the bearing surfaces be cleaned before painting, as some flash rust is appearing, or is it better to paint first and clean the surfaces when dry ?
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3rd June 2012, 05:27 PM #32Dave J Guest
I would clean them before and put a light coat of oil on them, that way if you do get a bit of paint on them it will just wipe off easily.
Dave
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3rd June 2012, 06:18 PM #33
I checked
My al340 the day I got it home. I think I must have had the only free of sand and crud lathe they sold.Warning Disclaimer
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3rd June 2012, 06:50 PM #34SENIOR MEMBER
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Jeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzus, I wasn't lookin' for another job !
My AL336 gearbag was a little noisy from new so I sucked some oil out and tipped in a bit of 80w90 gear oil in, it shut it up and made it sound sweet, hahaha I think won't look in there yet
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3rd June 2012, 06:53 PM #361915 17"x50" LeBlond heavy duty Lathe, 24" Queen city shaper, 1970's G Vernier FV.3.TO Universal Mill, 1958 Blohm HFS 6 surface grinder, 1942 Rivett 715 Lathe, 14"x40" Antrac Lathe, Startrite H225 Bandsaw, 1949 Hercus Camelback Drill press, 1947 Holbrook C10 Lathe.
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3rd June 2012, 06:55 PM #37Awaiting Email Confirmation
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matthew
What!!!,
"they forgot to include the standard optional extras"
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3rd June 2012, 07:34 PM #38GOLD MEMBER
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Yea. what he said!
It's amazing how things rust really quickly when the're clean! I cleaned my headstock back to bare metal and the next day I went out to the shed and it was coated in rust
You definately don't want anything not even dust or a hair in the bearing seats of the spindle. The other bearing seats are not as critical even though I would avoid any paint on them too. A light coating of oil on them is the go. I know with the POR15, if you get some where you don't want it and it hardens, you need to chisel it off.
The stuff you got looks the goods!
Cheers,
Simon
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All went smooth, heres a pic of the headstock.
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Looks great Lather, I'm starting to wish I'd done mine.
I did change the oil early on, though once I saw the bottom of the bucket I wish I had done it earlier. Here is a picture of the oil that came out. I connected the drain port to a 20 litre plastic drum with a coolant pump and about 15 litres of kero in it. Then just hosed it out and this is what was left in the bottom of the drum.
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Thats's a great job. I love the colour. So easy to see any foreign material in there. A couple of magnets thrown in for good measure would top of a great job. I put one in the bottom and one on the lid, above the drain hole for the spindle bearing. Hopefully it catches any foreign material before it's flushed into the spindle bearings. Unlike most other peoples lathes, my headstock only has a drain hole for the front spindle bearing. I'm not sure if it's designed that way or if they forgot to do one for the rear. The rear bearing gets enough lubrication without it anyway.
Cheers
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I wish I hadn't seen that Stuart, this sort of thing doesn't just happen with chinko machines, In 1982 I bought a new Harley, up until then I had only had pommie bikes, anyway I was giving it a flogging and when I changed from 2nd to 3rd the clutch lever pulled in with no pressure and there was a huge bang, the back wheel locked up and I skidded to a halt. On inspection the gearbox mainshaft nut had come loose and when I pulled the clutch lever in it pushed the mainshaft across and I got 2 gears at once, bang, it even busted the g/box casing. When I pulled it down the primary chain case had what looked like a 12mm deep layer of aluminium/grinding crappola in the bottom of it, the engine had similar but also had swarf, the swarf had nearly parted off the rotary crankcase breather valve.
Thanks for your horrible pic's, I'll have a sticky beak in there now