What Projects are you working on?

[8ntsane]

Just trying to clean up my Rusnoks. No pictures, I need to rectify that, but I have one torn completely down for a good cleaning and debating on whether I should paint it or not. Probably will.

VDUB
Ya gotta put a fresh lick a paint on it! Ya just gotta!
Hey, get some pics for us too.

 

[brucer]

And here it is

what are you using to take the pictures with?

 

[8ntsane]

Brucer

All my pics are taken with a Samsong Galaxie II , Cell phone

 

[HSS]

Well, I've been stripping paint off the old girl and doing some wet scraping. I don't want to stir up any dust cause I figure that paint is full of lead. Kleen Strip does a really good job but it stings a little when you get some on ya. I got tired of scraping and did a little exploring on the knee lift mechanism. I have looked at all the Gorton information and pictures I could find and no where have I found a knee post like the one on this mill. It has a flare fitting on the bottom and on the top at the back of the housing. I had told my wife that it looked like a hydraulic cylinder, soooo, I shot air into the fitting and the knee lifted and came back down when I removed the blow gun. Man that will relieve a lot of hand cranking. Now all I have to do is find a power unit to hook up to it.

Patrick

 

[8ntsane]

Patrick

Your getting into the stripping now that you have it . Looks like a nasty job to take on. But once all that old paint is off you will be on the road to making that mill look like new. Ive wanted to do it to both my mill and lathe, but have to wonder how many hours would be involved in the job?

That hydraulic knee lift is pretty neat! Is there any other means of locking the knee position? You know how hydraulics never seem to hold position for very long.
Just makes me wonder if that would be a issue while machining.

Keep us updated with pics, and a progress report on the Gorton.
Thats going to be a really nice mill when all the work gets done

 

[HSS]

Patrick

Your getting into the stripping now that you have it . Looks like a nasty job to take on. But once all that old paint is off you will be on the road to making that mill look like new. Ive wanted to do it to both my mill and lathe, but have to wonder how many hours would be involved in the job?

That hydraulic knee lift is pretty neat! Is there any other means of locking the knee position? You know how hydraulics never seem to hold position for very long.
Just makes me wonder if that would be a issue while machining.

Keep us updated with pics, and a progress report on the Gorton.
Thats going to be a really nice mill when all the work gets done

I hadn't thought about the hydraulic's leaking down, but there is a manual crank on the right side below the table. It just takes a while to wind that thing up and down. This is the second machine I've stripped, the first being my 13" SouthBend lathe, and my wife helped me on that one. It takes a while but I'm in no big hurry. Every time I go out to work on it, I find another place I missed last time. She did say she would paint the mill when I finish cleaning it up, tho.

Patrick

 

[Old Iron]

Mounting Carriage DRO with a 35" scale. Had to crawl under the Lathe about 5 times before I got it finished.

35" Scale

 

[Old Iron]

Trying to do in line pictures but it will only let me do one. So I'll do it the other way.

And a short movie.

 

[Old Iron]

I'm working on a $35 lawn mower. You just kinda push it around the yard...

Now thats funny!!

Paul

 

[Old Iron]

That install ain't gettin done while yer yakkin with yer fingers. ROTFLMAO

"Billy G" :lmao::lmao::lmao:

Billy its all done except for covering the wires, Well get that stuff tomorrow. And I need to get the pictures off my camera of the readout stand.

Paul