restoration

I had just bought a vintage K&E Paragon Drafting machine. I am a machining and drafting student at a tech school. I am trying to disassemble the machine, in order to restore it to its former glory. Does anyone has an owner's manual or technical drawing. So I can disassemble it and reassemble...

Hi, it's nice to meet you all. I wanted to put up a thread on a project I've recently started. I live in the middle of nowhere - well, not quite the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from here - in northern Alberta and so I haven't been spoiled for choice in terms of used machine tools I...

I should have started this thread a little while ago, but better late than never. I bought a 13" South Bend made in 1960 a year or so ago. The plan has always been to do a proper rebuild of the machine, including grinding the bed ways and scraping in the saddle, cross slide, compound, etc. and...

Picked up this derelict for the price of a couple of bags of groceries. Perhaps not a steal but certainly below the typical asking, around here. Anyway, I can go a few days without food... Looks like she was pretty rusted at one point and repainted, is that red-lead primer peeking through...

Howdy! I had picked up this miller DeltaWeld 651 welder with a s22a wire feeder for 1000$, it was in rough shape so I figured I would get her back up to snuff. I figured it would be easier and more interesting just to edit some video, so here is part one of fixing this 33 year old girl! I...

When my wife and I bought our property in 2014, there was an old farmhouse on it. The house, itself, was not salvageable but it did contain a great deal of odds and ends left behind by the previous owners. One of which was this old drill press. When we first saw the place, it was sitting on...

Hi all, First time. So this was my father in laws fathers lathe that was bought for them 50 years ago and last used in 1985 by my father in law. It was located in a barn in Scone NSW. Now in parts in my place in Hurlstone Park Sydney. Dose anyone have any info about this lathe? age? Type...

Hey all, I am refurbishing a Bridgeport mill, and I want to convert the older-style oil zerks to a newer one-shot oiler. So I bought an oiler that looks like this one from Ebay: And specifically has the connectors which are supposed to screw into the Bridgeport that looks like this (I...

I'm a bottom line up front kinda guy, so I waited to start this thread until I had the following pictures to show: Now that that's out of the way... This thread is a long time coming, because I started this project in June of 2022. Ever since I bought my first lathe (1937 Atlas H-54), I...

Hi All, Pretty new to the forum. A bit of background on me - I've no background in engineering at all, but I do have a thousands of hours on YouTube watching the machining greats and a positive attitude :) All joking aside, I owned a Warco 250V lathe (I think an English badged version the same...

Hi all, i just picked up Brown and Sharpe No 1 horizontal milling machine and i have a some questions... First is: How do you oil this thing!! i gather that there is no central oiling System but i don't know which holes are for oil! (i figured out the spindle but the ways i am confused). My...

Hey all, I'm in the middle of a lathe restoration. I am documenting this via You Tube videos. Here are the first 3 episodes. More to follow. Part 1 -- Getting in over my head... Part 2 -- Moving mishaps ... Part 3 -- Fun with lead paint... I'd love feedback. Thanks Kevin

I started the restoration before I joined, so I don't have any before pictures. But you can all imagine the rust, dirt dauber mud packed inside of everything, old paint, stripped bolts, missing parts, rusty shafts, and nothing moved. I couldn't buy parts online from a long gone Boice Crane...

I recently acquired my first lathem, a 113-B built in 1941. It was in "working" condition when I bought it, but a previous owner had it so gunked up with grease, instead of oil, that I decided I was going to take it apart, clean everything the best I can, give it a fresh paint job, and put it...

Hello everyone, I am in need of some help here. I have searched all over the internet for any kind manual for an OLD Van Norman valve grinder model YW, I am restoring. It doesn't seem to be nearly as popular is the milling machines, where there seems to be a lot of information available...

Hey guys, I felt like this post would make sense as it's own thread. I wanted to thank everyone here for helping me out with the identification and tear down of this piece of vintage machinery. It's awesome to find a community so passionate about these pieces of history. According to @wa5cab...

I just bought a craftsman 12in lathe 101.07383 after reading through some articles about the history of atlas craftsman lathes I determined it must be about a 1939 As it has the bronze "babbit" bearings in the head stock and a 12 in swing 42 in bed measured end to end and no power cross feed...

Hi guys, here is a link to the rebuild of my other lathe, a 13" geared head Covmac, made during WW2, not in Coventry, but in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, UK, by P&C Garnett, a textile machine manufacturer, as war work. I would be interested to know if any Covmac lathes made it to the USA...

I have been struggling to remove the end-play bolt for the spindle, over the past few days I was able to find the time to make the tool that I thought would do the job. Hand-forged Lathe End-play Nut Wrench Even with the tool it proved to be more work than I expected. I had to collapse a steel...

I've been working most nights on my lathe restoration, I just completed a part for the bull-gear on the lathe in an effort to bring it back to a "like original" condition. Thoughts? Thanks, Dusty