Thread: Lathe Rest or WIP

Now thats kinky Nick and worse from Christos for feeding it.

Nice motor hope the price was right. Pulleys look cool well machined, have you worked out ratio, speeds etc.

Oh you forgot better photo of the motor mount so we/I can help you sort that out. Welder here if needed. Oh diameter of rods required.

This weekend has allowed me to use electrolysis on some of the curved parts of legs (under the foot). As this was the first time that I have done anything in regards to this type of rust removal I originally set this up on Thursday morning to see what will happen.

The battery charger that I have does not allow to be use with out a battery attached.
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The automatic settings do not allow the charger to start even when selecting manual.

So I put on a battery in series with the charger and tired it. It works little bubbles started to form.

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Turned off the power and headed to work. The battery had enough charge to continue with the process and on Saturday morning I found one piece cleaned.

The remaining three legs were done over the weekend.

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shocking life back into it eh Christos

so will it all be together for your demonstrations at SWWS

Christos
I am over the moon to see the old lathe you got of me has gone to a home where there is plenty of TLC.
You look to be doing a top notch job. As I said when you pick it up, If you need any bits made up let me know but it looks as if you are getting plenty of help here. Keep it coming guys and girls.
You may think your having fun now wait till you hit the start button, Which does not look to fur off now.
Again may the chips fly for a long time too come

Russell

Today I had a day off and was able to get back into the shed. Very cold this morning but still got into cleaning up the final bits from the electrolysis.

The rinsing just had to be done with some light sanding despite the cold hands. Once dried off with the rag I went and got the hairdryer to get this ready for the primer.

Then I started back on the actual lathe to see what loose bits of paint would flake off. Previously I did not coat it with primer as just stripped it back to the original primer level. I took the head stock off the bed and worked on them separately. Taped up the bed with blue tape and gave it a coat of primer. Same treatment with the head stock and covered the holes and bearings as I did not want to clean those later.

I do have one question that has been bugging me a little and that is should I give it a coat of paint or just leave the primer as the final coat? What are peoples thoughts?

If it's pink primer, I'd advise you to leave it

Coat of paint. Primer generally is not a sealing coat and will allow rust to form.

Paint it so its not going to annoy the heck out of you Christos a nice hammer Tone Blue would look good. Or this colour yes you can get Hammer Tone in a spray can.

Or maybe how about Pearlcoat just to tick TL off.

I do have one question that has been bugging me a little and that is should I give it a coat of paint or just leave the primer as the final coat? What are peoples thoughts?

I like to use a metal prep that contains phosphoric acid after derusting, that makes the metal grabby to paint. I then follow with a thin coat of primer, and then a finish coat.

The primer is formulated to stick to the metal, the finish coat is made to be hard and durable.

Some finish coats say that no primer is needed. If you used the metal prep, you could probably skip the primer.

I usually pick my finish coat, read the directions, and follow carefully. Most manufacturers like to have succesful paint jobs and happy customers, so give directions to that end.

After going to the trouble of disassembling and derusting, you might as well take a little longer and do a proper paint job.

I can't wait to see the finished result.

Just got onto this thread and am following with great interest. Looks great so far

I'll stickmy oar in here and agree with Paul on the paint Job.

I guess I needed a push in the right direction to get this painted. Just looked at Galmet paint and only have a high gloss for every colour except black in satin. Not wanting to have a high gloss because of the possible reflection.

So stay tuned for some flash colours.




Nar one flash colour.

I managed to get a flat paint for metal about two weeks ago. This was after visiting large hardware stores and finding that they only had a high gloss enamel metal paint. I was working way out west and before I finish work I call a specilist paint store and asked what they had for metal in a satin or flat. Only one tin left in a flat.

So I picked this up and got it tinted as dark as would allowed for a base of white. No matter it was flat and so I started with one coat on one side. In this colder weather it takes about 6 to 8 hours for it to be touch dry. And that's what it say on the can. So two weeks have pasted and I got two coats on both sides and today another coat on one side. I think that I can do one more coat and start to put the stand back together.

I must say that it does look good but that's because I like green.